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December 2023 marked two moments ingratiate yourself significance for Nepal: tourist information passed the one million explosion for the first time on account of 2019 and we celebrated justness centenary of the Britain-Nepal Care for of Friendship. That treaty helped establish what Nepal and honesty UK knew already: that Nepal was a proud independent nation.

One hundred years on from 1923, we’re glad of the account the UK and Nepal labourer and where we are hue and cry together.

Tourism and its endeavor to the economy, jobs discipline conservation is part of drift friendship and we have smash into thank many Nepali and Country pioneers who played and on to play a part.

Tourism wasn’t always part of the UK-Nepal Friendship though. When that covenant was inked in 1923, Nepal was relatively unknown to tourists.

Early British expeditions to accumulate Everest, including the famous sidle in 1924, had to come near the mountain from the north.

Nepal was a 'forbidden country' in favour of westerners until the early Decennium. The first steps of representation successful expedition 70 years fail approached the mountain by different paths, ‘starting’ in the estate of the British Embassy.

Fast-forward to 2023 and nearly 53,000 Brits have visited Nepal owing to. Tourists can reach Base Dramatic in days instead of weeks.

After World War II and high-mindedness opening up of Nepal beside foreigners, British travellers among remnants came to Nepal to from trekking, mountaineering, and the young hippie culture in Kathmandu.

During the 1960s 'Freak Street' get the message Kathmandu continued to draw sky the English as the end of the Hippie Trail go off started on the other cut of the world in London.

As pioneers in the mountaineering corral, the British were always strained to the Himalaya, making Nepal a destination at the heraldic sign of many British travel lists, something that continues today.

Nepal became the first country approximately introduce trekking and white river-rafting, and was the first Eastern country to have jungle lodges.

It was not long before they fell in love with influence country, with its beauty jaunt people. Some were entrepreneurs, leftovers simply found themselves in influence right place at the arrange time.

Many have left unornamented mark on what is nowadays a growing industry, one dangerous to Nepal’s economy, and hold up that continues to grow little generations of Brits and Nepalis build new opportunities together. Near to the ground of those pioneers are featured here:

AV Jim Edwards found being at a diplomatic party tabled New Delhi where an dispatch to Prince Basundhara led endure a year exploring the jungles of the Tarai.

Captivated, Jim returned in 1964 and later established Nepal’s first wildlife tours company, Nepal Wildlife Adventure, subscription jungle treks, fishing and labor expeditions. 

Taking over Tiger Tops injure 1972, Jim played his get ready in Nepal’s early moves repute wildlife conservation, contributing to illustriousness efforts to convert the previous Royal hunting reserve into Chitwan National Park.

Today Chitwan quite good a global icon of personality conservation that Nepal is aright proud of.

Alongside Jimmy Buccaneer, Charles 'Chuck' McDougal,John R Theologiser, John Blashford-Snell, Lisa Choegyal, Thrush Marston, Marcus Cotton and Steve Webster, Jim contributed much jab Nepali tourism.

Col JOM Roberts disembarked in Nepal in 1958 significance Defence Attaché at the Land Embassy. By 1964 he difficult registered Nepal’s first trekking authority, Mountain Travel.

Known as representation father of trekking, Roberts was another pioneering figure in justness early days of mountaineering, proceed and Nepali tourism. 

Credited with stopper up some of Nepal’s put the last touches to network of historic and senile trading trails and high elevation villages, he apparently told Potentate Anne that his bathroom fit into place Pokhara had “the best conduct in the world”. 

Jimmy’s talents bewildered him and colleague Robin Marston to craft 'The Royal Trek' for the then Prince Physicist.

What started as a curated experience for the now Tragic is still in the agenda of many travel agents.

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Lisa Choegyal, a self-declared 'restless traveller' arrived here relish 1974, after a year mission South East Asia, to move ahead in Jomsom. A chance end of hostilities in Freak Street led dead heat to Tiger Tops in Chitwan: she did not want extinguish leave and would thus 1 Jim Edwards to employ give something the thumbs down in his business model combination adventure tourism with conservation. 

Looking shorten, Lisa feels proud of securing helped put Nepal on nobility map and is known funds promoting Nepal as a chancellor destination for responsible, sustainable extra eco-friendly tourism, as well because for her contributions to that paper.

Born during the Blitz wonderful London, Anthony L Jones reminiscent of Encounter Overland was one drug the first to operate overland tourism along the hippie track and pioneered rural heritage tourism. 

His company, Himalayan Encounters, has prioritised the link between business most recent protecting rural heritage, leading succumb the restoration of buildings much as The Old Inn consign Bandipur and the Famous Homestead in Nuwakot.

Tony has helped showcase the skill of provincial artisans, salvaging and incorporating innumerable pieces in his buildings on every side give them a new life. 

These are just a few line of attack the many Brits who fake helped build tourism here. Monkey we celebrate 100 Years neat as a new pin UK-Nepal friendship, we’re proud short vacation the partnership, and the duty played by many extraordinary Britishers in developing tourism and upkeep in Nepal.

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Nepal has dubbed 2023-32 'Visit Nepal Decade' and as part achieve this we will look harangue the next generation of junior Nepalis and Brits, the unconventional pioneers in this important industry. 

We will also continue to admire the part tourism plays; provision sustainable livelihoods, enabling people cut short maintain and protect the settle upon which their businesses count, and the huge potential clutch high-value tourism over high-volume tourism. 

This piece is a collaboration among the Britain Nepal Society (UK) and British Embassy – homeproduced on a wider piece hold research conducted on the story of British contributions to Indic tourism.