Jao Kabral (Portuguese Citizen) first visited Nepal in 1628 from Europe.
Christian Jesuit, Father John Grewar & D.Arbel visited Nepal during the regime of Pratap Malla in 1641-1644.
Many Indian & Chinese tourist visited Nepal for religious purpose.
In 1935 Lost Horizon introduced a word Shangri-La & gave a new vision about the Nepal to the western world.
In 1941, Nepal opened its door to the outsider for expedition purpose.
During Rana Regime (1846-1950) the development of tourism was stopped.They closed the entry of foreigners.
Tourism grew rapidly after the advent of democracy.
The first hotel of Nepal, Himalayan inn was established in 1951 followed by Paras inn in 1952.
Russian Chef Borris Lissnevitch opened Royal Hotel in 1953 in Nepal on request of the then government.
In 1955, Thomas Cook & his son get permission to organize a tour for 60 tourists in Kathmandu valley.
In 1957, Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) was established to deal with growing number of tourist.
In 1959 Nepal got the membership of Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA).
In 1958 Royal Nepal Airline Corporation was established.
Tourism as an industry came into existence in 1970 to promote it.
Since 1978 the tourism of Nepal was managed under full ministry known as Ministry of Culture, Tourism & Civil Aviation.
In 1998, the government declared tourist year& the slogan was “visit Nepal year 1998”to increase tourism.
In 2011, Nepal tourism year was celebrated to promote tourism in Nepal.
Nepal has done a lot of development in the field of tourism & trying to do better in future also.
