{"id":15663,"date":"2025-01-11T22:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=15663"},"modified":"2025-01-11T22:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:39:31","slug":"lumbini-ranked-9th-among-52-destinations-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/lumbini-ranked-9th-among-52-destinations-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumbini ranked 9th among 52 destinations in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, June 11: The New York Times recent ranking of Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, as one of the &#8217;52 top places to go in 2025&#8217;is expected to further boost domestic and external tourism here.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism entrepreneurs here are confident that the crowning of Lumbini as 9th out of &#8216;top 52 places to go in 2025&#8217; by the New York Times will send a positive message for global tourism.<\/p>\n<p>Lumbini has been attracting an increasing number of visitors in the recent years with over 1.1 million tourists visiting here in 2024 alone, according to the Lumbini Development Trust.<\/p>\n<p>The enlisting of this place has not only unraveled the importance of cultural tourism of Nepal at the international level but it has also showcased Nepal&#8217;s ancient history at the global stage, said tourism entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>Trust&#8217;s member-secretary SanurajaShakya remarked that the New York Times ranking Lumbini 9th among the &#8216;top 52 places to go in 2025&#8217; was a &#8221;huge&#8221; achievement for Nepal&#8217;s tourism sector.<\/p>\n<p>Lumbini, also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is home to several historical monuments and holy sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, June 11: The New York Times recent ranking of Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, as one of the &#8217;52 top places to go in 2025&#8217;is expected to further boost domestic and external tourism here. Tourism entrepreneurs here are confident that the crowning of Lumbini as 9th out of &#8216;top 52 places to go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-main-news","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15664,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15663\/revisions\/15664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}