One of our first post in this blog was about people associated with the tourism board or ministry flying to places to take advantage of VISIT POKHARA 2007.

It also included how they could use the Nepalese living overseas to promote Nepal’s tourism. It also discussed about the need for “Web Advertisement”, with some facts such as that over a billion people are online everyday and that Nepal’s responsible tourism promoting organizations should catch those people without spending much money. The old post is on this site, see the archive or do a search.

Recently, Nepalese embassy in London on May 24th, organized an invent to promote Nepal’s tourism. Yeti, an UK based Foundation known as the Britain friends of Nepal was also involved in this program.

Gyan Chandra Acharya, Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs took the flight of his time, flew on a lavish plane to UK to attend the ceremony and the money spent by him as well as those who went with him will be unrecorded and unaccounted. He went there to thank British travel companies, while he could do the same right at home using his computer.

Every organization is taking the advantage of Visit POKHARA 2007, they want to be on the news such as nepalnews.com, they want to fly, meet, eat, drink and get a quick press release to be recognized.

Why is it not possible for WELCOMENEPAL.COM and the Nepal Tourism Government to catch people who are online instead of dumping poor Nepalese - tax money.

It is so simple - tell every Nepali Association or friends of Nepal located abroad to distribute your CDS, create seminars and stay home! Also advertise on TOP sites such as google, yahoo, msn, youtube.

Are you still snoring ? The clock is ticking and all your members are rolling up their sleeves to reach their hands to your neck! If your CEO is incompetent, get a new one! If the ministry is useless, let us replace him.