{"id":52020,"date":"2024-11-27T16:25:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/?p=52020"},"modified":"2024-11-27T16:25:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:40:31","slug":"shey-phoksundo-becoming-preferred-destination-for-domestic-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/2024\/11\/27\/shey-phoksundo-becoming-preferred-destination-for-domestic-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Shey-Phoksundo becoming preferred destination for domestic tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dolpa:<\/strong> The country&#8217;s deepest lake, also known as the blue diamond, continues to attract domestic and foreign tourists despite constant fall in temperature here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chief Conservation Officer at Shey-Phoksundo National Park Nurendra Aryal informed that a total of 1,632 tourists, both domestic and foreign, visited the Phoksundo Lake area between mid-July and mid-October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Number of domestic tourists visiting the panoramic lake is higher in comparison to the foreign tourists. In the last five months, 326 tourists from SAARC and other countries visited Shey-Phoksundo, generating revenue of Rs 1.053 million, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Park, revenue of Rs 6.57 million has been collected from the sale of forest produce, eco-tourism and charges since the beginning of the current fiscal year till October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laxman Devkota, a local of Tripurasundari Municipality-1 said the number of domestic tourists has been increasing in the last few years as Dolpa is a place of beautiful religious and tourist destinations like Phoksundo Lake, Tripurasundari Temple, She-Gumba and Dho Tarap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the number of tourists would increase significantly if Nepalgunj-Dolpa flights are regularized, Bheri corridor is improved and hotels are properly arranged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to hoteliers of Dunai, the district headquarters, Dolpa will benefit from domestic tourists rather than foreigners in terms of trade and business promotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the tourists come here on motorcycles as they can easily reach Dunai by motorcycle and other vehicles through Nepalgunj-Surkhet-Jajarkot-Rukum route. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolpa: The country&#8217;s deepest lake, also known as the blue diamond, continues to attract domestic and foreign tourists despite constant fall in temperature here. Chief Conservation Officer at Shey-Phoksundo National Park Nurendra Aryal informed that a total of 1,632 tourists, both domestic and foreign, visited the Phoksundo Lake area between mid-July and mid-October. Number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/\u092b\u094b\u0915\u094d\u0938\u0941\u0923\u094d\u0921\u094b-\u0924\u093e\u0932-\u092a\u0930\u093f\u0938\u0930\u092e\u093e-\u092c\u0928\u093e\u0907\u090f\u0915\u094b-\u0928\u092f\u093e\u0901-\u092a\u0930\u094d\u0916\u093e\u0932.jpg?fit=730%2C487&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcWLTd-dx2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52022,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52020\/revisions\/52022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}