Renowned mountaineer Reinhold Messner graced Nepal’s function at CMT, Germany

Kathmandu / January 25: This year’s Caravan, Motors and Tourism (CMT) 2016, international travel fair held from 16 January 2016 in Messe Stuttgart, Germany concluded successfully on 24th January 2016. Nepal made its active presence in Nepal Stand: Hall No. 4 B 11 in this fair.

Nepal Tourism Board (NTB), in coordination with Nepal German Chamber of Commerce & Industry (NGCCI) and Nepalese Private Travel Trade Sector Companies participated in this fair. Mr. Ngaindra Prasad Upadhyaya, Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, was also present in the Nepal Stand in the inauguration day of the fair. Mr. Ghanshyam Upadhyaya, Joint Secretary of Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation attended the fair as an observer.

CMT, with more than 2000 exhibitors from almost 100 countries, is Germany’s largest caravanning motors and tourism fair. It is one of the Europe’s largest leisure and tourism consumer fairs with a combination of motor and caravanning show held in Stuttgart, Germany every year. The official data of the visitors visiting this year’s CMT is yet to come but it is expected that around 300 thousand visitors visited this year’s CMT. India, Switzerland and Denmark were the partner countries for this year’s CMT.

Most of the visitors queried about the post- earthquake situation of Nepal. On 19th Jan, a press meet was organized to clarify Nepal’s situation after the earthquake. More than 50 representatives of Travel Trade and Media were present in the program. Mr. Reinhold Messner, renowned mountaineer graced the event and spoke positively about Nepalese Tourism and it was covered in German Media the next Day. Mr. Ghanshyam Upadhyaya gave a brief presentation about the current situation of Nepal and urged the German people to visit Nepal. Honorary Consul of Nepal in Stuttgart Ms. Ann Katrin Buaknecht moderated the program.

Nepal’s participation in CMT 2016 has been successful to give positive vibes among potential European travelers. Most of the queries during the fair were related to earthquake, trekking, air connectivity and sightseeing. There were also some queries about the political situation of Nepal. The most interesting fact about the visitors visiting Nepal stall was that most of them were repeated visitors and some of them turned to be several time visitors to Nepal. Many repeated visitors also showed their keen interest to visit Nepal in the near future. Nepal Tourism Board provided the visitors with the necessary information about Nepal distributing various brochures, posters and souvenirs.