| Royal Visit |
 Club
Himalaya Nagarkot Resort was honored to
receive His Majesty King Gyanendra Bir Bikram
Shah Dev and His Royal Highness Crown Prince
Paras on an inspection visit related with
the planned retreat there for the regional
heads of State and Government of the seven
SAARC countries. Rt. Honorable Prime Minister
Sher Bahadur Deuba and Honorable Finance
Minister Ram Sharan Mahat accompanied. Seen
in the photograph receiving the V.V.I.P.
guests are managing director of the resort
Yogendra Shakya and his wife Bindu Shakya.
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China
News
Approved Destination Status
Nepal and China signed an agreement for
the inclusion of Nepal in China's Approved
Destination Status (ADS). Chinese tourists
can now come on organized group tours to
visit Nepal by forming groups of a minimum
of 5 persons. Honorable Minister for Culture,
Tourism & Civil Aviation Bal Bahadur KC
and the Chairman of China National Tourism
Administration His Excellency He Guangwei
initialed the agreement amidst a special
ceremony in the ministry. During the visit
Chairman He Guangwei took some time out
to relax in the beautiful Gokarna Golf Resort
in Kathmandu by playing a round of golf
with local hosts Prachanda Shrestha of Everest
Construction, Martin van Kan, general manager
of Hyatt Regency and Marco Polo's managing
director Subodh Rana. |
| CHINESE MEDIA
VISIT 27 JANUARY - 5 FEBRUARY 2002 |
| For the promotion of Nepal
in China, Nepal Tourism Board invited a
12 member media delegation from China to
visit the most popular tourist sites of
Nepal from 27 January until 5 February.
Besides the Kathmandu valley they visited
Pokhara, Lumbini, Chitwan and Nagarkot.
Royal Nepal Airlines sponsored their air
tickets from Shanghai and many hotels, resorts
and travel agencies hosted |
them. Marco Polo Travels
hosted a special dinner for the group at
Club Himalaya Nagarkot Resort in the company
of Chinese ambassador to Nepal His Excellency
Wu Congyong.
Chinese Media
Group
- MR. JIAO AGENG - CHINA FOREIGN SERVICE
(BEIJING)
- MR. ZHANG JINGCHUN - BEIJING YOUTH
NEWS
- MR. SUN ZHANTAO - TRENDS TRAVEL
- MISS WANG XU - MISS FASHION
- MISS QU TAO - TRAVELLER
- MISS XIE YIQING - TRAVELLING SCOPE
(SHANGHAI)
- MS. WANG WEI (DAISY) - B&B INTERNATIONAL
LTD.
- MR. LIU CHANG - METRO (BEIJING & SHANGHAI)
- MS. ZHU WENJIE - QUO (SHANGHAI)
- MS. JANE RAM - FREELANCE (HONG KONG)
- MR. MARK GRAHAM - FREELANCE (HONG
KONG)
- MRS. MARIA BOYD - FREELANCE - B&B
INTERNATIONAL
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Airline News
Floris J. van Pallandt succeeds
Legro at Transavia airlines
SCHIPHOL, 2 January 2002 - Floris J. van
Pallandt has been appointed to succeed Peter
J. Legro as the President & C.E.O. of Transavia
airlines. Mr Van Pallandt will be joining
Transavia with effect from 1 April 2002.
Van Pallandt (47) has clearly won his spurs
within the aviation industry. He is currently
the Chief Executive Officer of KLM uk Ltd,
which operates two brands, KLM uk and buzz.
Prior to that, Van Pallandt served as the
Managing Director of KLM Cityhopper and
has also performed various other functions
within KLM both in the Netherlands and abroad.
After twenty-two years as the President
& C.E.O. of Transavia airlines and more
than 40 years within the aviation industry,
Mr Legro (64) is due to retire this spring.
"The inevitable moment when I have to hand
over my function within this fascinating
company to someone else has almost arrived.
Transavia airlines and its staff are extremely
fortunate that Mr Van Pallandt - a man with
extensive experience in the aviation industry
- has been appointed as my successor. I
have every confidence in his capabilities
and expertise," said the departing President
of the Board. |
Partner News
Geert - Willem Boven new President
of OAD
Owner and President of OAD Reizen Holland,
Joop ter Haar, will retire as President
from the biggest Dutch travel company on
01 April. His position will be taken by
Geert-Willem Boven who is currently the
President of Martinair, the second biggest
Dutch airline. |
| Joop ter Haar, regarded
as one of the most successful Dutchmen,
started his career by cleaning the buses
of a small transport company that his father
owned. Later he worked as a tour guide throughout
Europe as a bus driver before his father
allowed him to get on to the management
team of OAD. "My father made an agreement
with me. Once a week he would only listen
to my |
positive views about the
development of OAD. The problems I had to
solve myself."
OAD still owns 170 buses and is still providing
local transport in the Eastern part of Holland.
Van Boven , 46 , feels he can increase the
market share of OAD in the travel business.
"The future is in long haul destinations,"
says van Boven. "Destinations in different
parts of the world makes our organization
less vulnerable." |
Promotions
China International Travel Mart
2001
Nepal participated at CITM 2001 held in
the southern city of Kunming from 8th to
11th November. The very impressive designer
stand that Nepal Tourism Board had |
| commissioned for its second
annual participation had huge numbers of
Chinese visitors flocking to meet the exhibitors
from Nepal, including Marco Polo Travels.
Having over 15 years of experience in handling
Overseas Chinese tourists from Hong Kong,
Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand,
Marco Polo is in the forefront of promoting
Nepal in China. |
VIP Visits
Mr. Grahame Carder, Vice President Marketing
for Asia/Pacific of Hyatt Hotel International
was in Kathmandu recently to take stock
of the current situation in tourism. He
met with president of Nepal Incentive &
Convention Association Subodh Rana to exchange
views on the marketing of MICE tourism.
Hyatt Regency was inaugurated by HM King
Birendra in October 2000 and is one of the
finest hotels for basing incentive tour
groups in Nepal.
Dear Mr. Rana,
Many thanks for taking the time to meet
with me during my brief trip to KTM. I appreciated
your comments and the challenges faced by
the Nepali travel trade. Tourism is vital
for the welfare of Nepal: it's success can
only bode well for the Kingdom. I hope 2002
will be better than 2001, and you can count
on the Hyatt to continue to play an active
role in developing and encouraging visitors
to the Kingdom. I look forward to meeting
you again on my next trip.
Kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
Grahame Carder |
Yet
another new destination!
Our tireless effort to come up with new
and interesting destinations and products
within Nepal has again paid off with yet
another new destination - Bandipur.
At an altitude of 1,005 meters, Bandipur,
an ancient Newari mountain town, is untouched
by modernization and offers breathtaking
sweep of the Himalayan range from Langtang
in the east to Dhaulagiri in the west.
Accompanied by the Product Managers of Oad
Reizen, we could not help but fall in love
with the place. Confident that our clients
will love it too, we have decided to feature
Bandipur in our package.
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