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July 2008
New Visa Regulations
NAC: Second Boeing returning home
Trekkers' Information Management System (TIMS)
July 2008
New Visa Regulations

The Goverment of Nepal has set new visa regulations into effect.

Source: Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) July 2008

Nepal Trekking Information: Visa Section Trekking permits

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July 2008

Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC): Second Boeing returning home

After months of delay the other Boeing 757 of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) is finally coming home. The aircraft was sent to Brunei in August 2007 for C-check. After bringing its second Boeing back in operation, NAC has plans to resume flights to Shanghai and Osaka and increase flight frequency on the New Delhi-Kathmandu route to seven flights a week.
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January 2008

Trekkers' Information Management System (TIMS)
An agreement has been signed between Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) and Trekking Agents Association of Nepal (TAAN) with an objective of maintaining the database of trekkers and discouraging illegal operation in trekking business to implement the Trekkers' Information Management System (TIMS) from 1st January 2008.

As per the provision, all trekkers should have the valid TIMS Certificate that is distributed free of charge by the TIMS counters of NTB and TAAN.

Nepal Tourism Board will provide TIMS Certificate free of cost to both trekkers who wish to go to trekking through government registered trekking companies and individual trekkers(FIT).

As per agreement, TAAN would use the offices of all its member agents as TIMS Counter. Trekking agencies that aren't affiliated with TAAN, however, have to get TIMS certificates from either TAAN Secretariat or NTB.

Similarly, TAAN's Pokhara Chapter member agencies of TAAN Pokhara Chapter would distribute TIMS Certificate in Pokhara.

It is believed that the database will become useful to rescue the trekkers during the emergencies and it will also help us to ascertain the number of trekkers in a particular trekking route.

TIMS Certificate can be obtained from NTB Office, Bhrikutimandap, NTB Office Pokhara, Belahia-Bhairahawa, Gadda Chauki- Mahendranagar, Kakarvitta and other designated counters by NTB in future.

Source: Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) January 2008

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