It is basically a campaign to raise awareness on the benefits of traveling, a MoTCA official said. To begin with, 100 employees of MoTCA and 10 other ministries will leave for different destinations across the country. [break]
The ministry is hopeful that the concept will be implemented by other government and private offices as well, making significant contribution on tourism development in rural sector of the country. The focus of leave tourism is on home-stay.
The MoTCA has developed a five-nights-six-days package for the scheme. As per the scheme, an employee can take a member of his family on the trip. Employees are free to choose destinations, but each team should have at least 10 civil servants. The ministry will arrange vehicle for the team and provide them incentives as per their ranks.
“Employees must travel. They can´t take incentives and stay at home in the name of leave tourism,” said Ranjan Krishna Aryal, joint secretary at MoTCA.
Aryal told Republica that the ministry has included 12 destinations in the package, starting from Dharan-Dhankuta in the east to Khaptad-Doti in the far-west. Each destination includes two or three sites that can be visited within five days. For example, the Pokhara package includes Bandipur and Ghandruk, Aryal added.
“The packages have been developed in such a way that the employees will need to spend at least one night in home-stay,” said Aryal.
The ministry has allocated Rs 3 million for this project. MoTCA had developed the ´leave tourism´ concept last year, keeping in mind the Nepal Tourism Year 2011 campaign.
Dorendra Niraula of the Tourism Promotion Section at MoTCA said the first group was leaving Kathmandu next week. “The package has been designed in such a way that it includes adventure options like trekking, camping and rafting wherever possible,” Niraula added.
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