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Essay On Tourism In Nepal

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Air service plays a significant role in development particularly in a mountainous country, like Nepal with rugged topography. Construction of surface transport infrastructures is expensive and time consuming such type of topography. Air transport provides fast services also. The high value and perishable commodities are traded through air routes. Domestic air transport has a significant place in the transportation of goods and passenger to and from the hinterland and remote areas. Currently, there are altogether 54 airports in Nepal, of which only 35 are in operation. Altogether 19 airfields including one international airport have bituminous paved runways. A second international airport has been planned to be constructed in Nijgadh. There are 37 STOL (short take-off and landing) airports that handle small aircrafts. Currently, altogether there are 70 aircrafts of different types belonging to different airlines of Nepal (Rajkarnikar 2010). The existing airports are shown in Figure 1-5 below. Figure 1 5 Airports of Nepal
Aviation Authority of Nepal has issued Airline Operation Certificates to 47 airline companies. But only 17 airlines are operating their air service. Of them, 5 airlines are …show more content…

Rana Prime Minister Chandra Shamsher Janga Bahadur Rana commissioned it in 1924 AD to cater to Kathmandu 's palace-building spree that was in full swing at the time (Zimmerman M. 2010). The second ropeway was 31 km long Dhorsing-Matatirtha ropeway, built in the 1930s. The ropeway was extended from Hetauda to Teku (Kathmandu in 1964 with $6.4 million assistance of USA and the length is increased to 42.3 km length. It was operated till 1994 for the transportation of goods (Maarten 2004). Manakamana cable car, the first public carrier cable car with length 2.8 km was built in November 1998. It takes 10 minutes from Kurintar to Manakamana temple (a Hindu

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