{"id":42983,"date":"2026-02-25T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=42983"},"modified":"2026-02-25T16:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:51:08","slug":"ncs-election-manifesto-prioritizes-tourism-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/ncs-election-manifesto-prioritizes-tourism-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"NC&#8217;s election manifesto prioritizes tourism sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Feb 25: The election manifesto released by the Nepali Congress (NC) targeting the upcoming House of Representatives (HoR) elections has promised to establish Nepal as a key tourist destination by bringing in 3 million tourists in a year within a decade.<\/p>\n<p>With a commitment to increase the contribution of the tourism industry in the national economy, the NC stated that the tourism industry&#8217;s contribution will be increased to as high as 20 percent, and the airports will be made passenger-friendly and accessible.<br \/>\nNC Spokesperson Devraj Chalise said that the management of the national flag carrier Nepal Airlines Corporation will be strengthened within six months.<\/p>\n<p>The party&#8217;s election manifesto promises to split the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) into two autonomous entities, including a service provider and a regulatory body.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts will be made to remove Nepal from the safety list of the aviation safety of the European Union (EU), the manifesto stated.<\/p>\n<p>It mentioned that the tourism industry will be considered a major pillar of employment, entrepreneurship and local communities&#8217; prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the NC has given priority to Janakpur, Lumbini and Kathmandu through the development of a spiritual corridor as well as develop an integrated tourist circuit by connecting Muktinath, Lumbini and Kathmandu through a digital corridor, namely the Buddha to Shiva spiritual route.<\/p>\n<p>The party has announced to waive off taxes for women and youth entrepreneurs involved in the tourism sector and provide concessional loans to them as well as apply the public-private-partnership model in tourism development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Feb 25: The election manifesto released by the Nepali Congress (NC) targeting the upcoming House of Representatives (HoR) elections has promised to establish Nepal as a key tourist destination by bringing in 3 million tourists in a year within a decade. With a commitment to increase the contribution of the tourism industry in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42983"}],"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=42983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42984,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42983\/revisions\/42984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}