After almost a half century, International Hotel and Restaurant Association (IHR&A) is holding its next world congress in Kathmandu in the first week of December.
“It will definitely help promote Nepal Tourism Year 2011,” said Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal during the meeting with the association’s president Dr Ghassan Aidi, who is on Nepal visit now.
According to Foreign Affairs advisor to PM Milan Raj Tuladhar, the visiting president Aidi has called on the PM at his office today.
The premier welcomed the leader of the world hoteliers in Nepal and mentioned that “Nepal looks forward to become a major tourist destination”, Tuladhar said quoting the Prime Minister. “The association had held one of its previous congresses in Nepal way back in 1968,” Aidi said, adding that it would like to make the new bigger congress in December.
He also sought support of the Prime Minister for the congress. The PM, on the occasion, thanked him for his efforts to hold international meet in Nepal and extended his full support.
“With three hundred thousand hotels and eight hundred thousand restaurants as its members, IHR&A is a big organisation and look forward to bring them to Nepal in December,” according to Aidi. Hotel Association of Nepal president Prasiddha Bahadur Pandey was also present during the discussion.
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