Two trekking entrepreneurs -- Chandra Rijal of See-Nepal Travel and Adventure and Sagar Pandey of Himalayan Glacier Trekking -- have already announced their candidacy for the post of president, fielding their respective panels.The AGM will elect eight office-bearers and nine executive committee members for a two-year term.
Republica talked to both the candidates to know their agendas for the development of tourism industry in general and trekking sector in particular.
Sagar Pandey
Executive Chairman
Himalayan Glacier Trekking
Our focus will be on developing TAAN as a professional body of trekking entrepreneurs. The focus of my team will be on bringing tourism back to the pre-earthquake level at the earliest. For this, our team will work jointly with the government and concerned stakeholders for devising attractive holiday packages, introducing volunteer tourism through trekking and travel companies, and lobby with the government to provide multiple-entry visa for five years. Similarly, we will work for the betterment of entrepreneurs working in the trekking business as well as guides, porters and others involved in this business. Our focus will also be on organizational development of TAAN for which we will set up research and development, marketing and destination promotion, and international relation departments. Our team will also put focus on development of mountain tourism by making trekking routes safer. We will keep signage along popular trekking trails. Likewise, we will work with concerned stakeholders to pile pressure on the government for restructuring of Nepal Tourism Board, making amendments to older acts and provisions in order to make industry-labor friendly environment. Our team will also work for promotion of tourism by developing posters, guide books, montages and documentaries, and promote them through social media. We will provide IT training to our member agencies and make TAAN an umbrella organization of trekking, mountaineering, adventure sports, and outdoor activities operators
Chandra Prasad Rijal
Managing Director
See-Nepal Travel and Adventure
Our priority will be on making 'Prosperous Nepal - Happy Nepalis'. We will work for the betterment of tourism sector, tourism entrepreneurs, and tourism workers. Our team will devise plans for early recovery of tourism industry and make Trekkers' Information Management System (TIMS) more effective. We will work for the betterment of tourism entrepreneurs by promoting their companies and working for betterment of laborers. We will trail our member agencies on product knowledge and online marketing. Our team will initiate a program to award trekking agencies which have make significant contribution in promotion and development of trekking sector, develop and promote new package and destinations every year, promote trekking, mountaineering and adventure activities, and organize national and international competitions. We will make TAAN's website effective, make optimum use of social media, develop TAAN's mobile application, and make TAAN Secretariat entrepreneurs-friendly. Similarly, we will work to ensure easy entry for staffers of our member agencies at airport terminal to facilitate arrival and departure of tourists and to transfer their baggage. We will also work to establish a fund for welfare of trekking entrepreneurs.
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