Tourist Arrivals Increase at Chitwan National Park Compared to Last Year

Chitwan. Tourist arrivals have increased this year compared to last year at the national park here. In the first 11 months of the current fiscal year, the number of tourists visiting the park and the buffer community forests has increased by 12,412.

In the same period last fiscal year, 156,283 tourists visited, whereas this year, 168,695 tourists visited the national park. According to the park's information officer, Avinash Thapa Magar, by the end of Falgun, 104,096 Nepali tourists had visited the park.

This number was 81,246 last year. Similarly, he informed that 9,544 tourists from SAARC countries and 55,055 from other countries visited the park this year. Last year, these figures were 14,207 and 60,830, respectively.

Tourists visit the park to see wildlife such as the one-horned rhinoceros, Bengal tiger, bear, elephant, spotted deer, gharial crocodile, and various birds. The park has collected revenue of NPR 175,756,325 in the current fiscal year.

He informed that revenue was collected as NPR 71,350 from the sale of timber and firewood, NPR 7,068,766 from the sale of non-timber forest products, NPR 166,324,100 from ecotourism, NPR 759,704 from fines and penalties, and NPR 1,522,405 from other headings.