{"id":1567,"date":"2020-11-02T17:15:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T11:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2020-11-02T17:15:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T11:45:31","slug":"nepal-bicycle-tour-kicks-off-to-revive-covid-19-affected-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/?p=1567","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Bicycle Tour kicks off to revive COVID-19 affected tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tourism agencies in the country have joined hand to revive the tourism badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic by organizing \u2018Nepal Bicycle Tour\u2019. The Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal (TAAN), Nepal Association of Tours and Travel Agents (NATTA) and Nepal Mountaineering Association (NAM) have organized the tourism promotion event in promotion of the government\u2019s tourism body-the Nepal Tourism Board.<\/p>\n<p>The Nepal Bicycle Tour group started their cycling from Board\u2019s office at Bhrikutimandap in Kathmandu. Board\u2019s CEO Dr Dhananjaya Regmi saw off the cyclists today who will be cycling from the Mahendranagar in the western part of the country to Pashupatinagar in the east. Renowned cyclist and Everest summiteer Pushkar Shah will be coordinating the bicycle tour.<\/p>\n<p>The team will cycle through Thakurdwara, Nepalgunj, Birendranagar, Ghorahi, Swargadwari, Tauhihawa, Bhairahawa, Butwal, Tansen, Pokhara, Narayanghat, Hetauda, Birgunj, Lalbandi, Janakpur, Gaighat, Dharan, Biratnagar and Kakadvitta covering as many as 1,624 kilometres during their three-week long sojourn.<\/p>\n<p>Board\u2019s member Deepak Mahat said that this bicycle tour would help breath a new life into the COVID-19-affected tourism industry and promote the message of the Board throughout the country as the cyclist pedal through the length of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The tour will reach up to Pashupatinagar in Ilam. The team will return Kathmandu after three weeks. The cyclists&#8217; team comprises Rajendra Sapkota, Shankar Adhikari, Mukti Pandey and Subhash KC among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tourism agencies in the country have joined hand to revive the tourism badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic by organizing \u2018Nepal Bicycle Tour\u2019. The Trekking Agencies Association of Nepal (TAAN), Nepal Association of Tours and Travel Agents (NATTA) and Nepal Mountaineering Association (NAM) have organized the tourism promotion event in promotion of the government\u2019s tourism body-the Nepal Tourism Board. The Nepal Bicycle Tour group started their cycling from Board\u2019s office at Bhrikutimandap in Kathmandu. Board\u2019s CEO Dr Dhananjaya Regmi saw off the cyclists today who will be cycling from the Mahendranagar in the western part of the country to Pashupatinagar in the east. Renowned cyclist and Everest summiteer Pushkar Shah will be coordinating the bicycle tour. The team will cycle through Thakurdwara, Nepalgunj, Birendranagar, Ghorahi, Swargadwari, Tauhihawa, Bhairahawa, Butwal, Tansen, Pokhara, Narayanghat, Hetauda, Birgunj, Lalbandi, Janakpur, Gaighat, Dharan, Biratnagar and Kakadvitta covering as many as 1,624 kilometres during their three-week long sojourn. Board\u2019s member Deepak Mahat said that this bicycle tour would help breath a new life into the COVID-19-affected tourism industry and promote the message of the Board throughout the country as the cyclist pedal through the length of the country. The tour will reach up to Pashupatinagar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.tukhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}