Why just a Visit Nepal Decade?
Why stop at a ‘Visit Nepal Decade’? Why not a set aside a ‘Decade for Nepal’? While the VND is a welcome move, much needs to be done to make it a reality. Especially challenging will be securing multi-partisan support. And on this hinge the dream. If dreams are all it takes why not conjure up a Decade for Nepal? A decade in which we can aim not just for a USD 7.5 billion in revenue from tourism but in which we can aim to take our GDP to quarter of a trillion United States Dollars. Things are happening around the world, in our own neighborhood, and indeed in Nepal itself that could make all things align for something like this to happen. Companies are moving away from China. They have not all left already but, increasingly, in boardrooms around the world, the refrain is ‘we are not putting any more investment into China,’ and the investors of those companies and their consumers agree. The world’s factory floor of the last sixty years does not look so enticing anymore. This is a re...