Tourist arrival up 8.7% in July

By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu, Aug. 4: Tourist arrival in Nepal has increased in the month of July this year.

According to the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), a total of 70,913 international visitors entered Nepal in the month of July, 2025.

This is 8.7 per cent higher than the tourist arrival during the same month of last year 2024. A total of 64,598 tourists had arrived in Nepal in the month of July 2024.

Notably, tourist arrival figure in the month of July this year represents a 99 per cent recovery compared to pre-pandemic levels in July 2019, according to the Nepal Tourism Board. 

A total of 70,916 tourists visited Nepal in the month of July 2019.  The tourist inflow which has been decreasing in Nepal after COVID-19 pandemic has started growing since 2024. 

According to NTB, Nepal welcomed over 1.147 million tourists in 2024, marking a significant recovery and growth of nearly 13.1 per cent compared to the previous year 2023.

A total of 1,014,882 foreign tourists visited Nepal in 2023. A total of 1.19 million foreign tourists had arrived in Nepal in fiscal year 2019/20. A total of 647,882 tourists arrived in Nepal during the seven months since January of the year 2025. 

The highest number of tourists - 121,687 - entered in Nepal in the month of March 2025 while a total of 116,490 tourists entered Nepal in the month of April. 

Similarly, a total of 79,991 tourists entered Nepal in the month of January, 96,880 in February and 86,216 in May and 76,425 in the month of June this year. The highest number of tourists arrived in Nepal from India in the month of July this year. 

A total of 27,152 tourists have come from India while 6,890 tourists from China and 6,626 tourists from United States of America have visited Nepal, according to the NTB.

Similarly, 4,413 tourists from Bangladesh and 3,547 visitors from the United Kingdom have come to Nepal in the month of July.

The share of India in total tourist arrival in the month of July is 38.7 per cent while the share of China was 9.8 per cent, USA 9.4 per cent, Bangladesh 6.3 per cent and UK 5.1 per cent.

Of the total tourist arrival, share of tourists from South Asia (SAARC) stood at 48 per cent (33,787 people), Asia (others) at 18.6 per cent (13,052 people), Europe at 13.2 per cent (9,292 people), Americas at 11.1 per cent (7,780 people), Oceania at 2.6 per cent (1,807 people), Middle East at 1.2 per cent (828 people), Africa at 0.5 per cent (318 people) and others at 4.7 per cent (3,329 people) in the review month.