‘Still a lockdown’: Deadly floods hit Nepal tourism as peak season begins
- Kathmandu, Chitwan and Nuwakot, Nepal – Like every year, Pushpraj Rimal, a tour planner and taxi driver in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, was looking forward to September for his business to boom.
- But what he got instead was a series of cancellations by tourists after catastrophic floods last month killed more than 1,450 people and destroyed key highways, deeply impacting the Himalayan nation heavily dependent on tourism.
- Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Floods and landslides kill at least 56 people in India, 12 in Nepallist 2 of 4Nepal’s leader labels devastating flood a ‘warning to t
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- Kathmandu, Chitwan and Nuwakot, Nepal – Like every year, Pushpraj Rimal, a tour planner and taxi driver in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu, was looking forward to September for his business to boom.
- But what he got instead was a series of cancellations by tourists after catastrophic floods last month killed more than 1,450 people and destroyed key highways, deeply impacting the Himalayan nation heavily dependent on tourism.
- Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Floods and landslides kill at least 56 people in India, 12 in Nepallist 2 of 4Nepal’s leader labels devastating flood a ‘warning to t
Sources: Al Jazeera