Tourism
Visitors, hotels, airlines and mountains.
Why a Kathmandu-Dhangadhi flight costs more than a flight to Delhi
State-set fare limits, expensive jet fuel and a five-month earning season sit behind a fare gap that has reached Nepal's parliament, according to The Kathmandu Post.
Nepal's nominees for India and China pitch an economic agenda to lawmakers
At their parliamentary hearings, Pandey and Sharma put investment, power trade, tourism and transit at the centre of their plans. Investors should weigh what was promised and what remains open.
Cosmic Air Nepal: how the first private jet airline rose and fell
Cosmic Air put the first jets on Nepal's domestic routes and flew to Delhi, Dhaka, Kolkata and Varanasi. Fare cuts, fuel debts and lease arrears grounded it within two years, and the regulator cancelled its certificate in 2010.
Bills to split Nepal's aviation regulator stall weeks before an EU deadline
The government wants off the EU air safety list by January 2027, but the two bills separating the regulator from the airport operator reached parliament only hours before it was prorogued.
Nepal's domestic airlines lost 540,000 passengers as fuel costs pushed up fares
Passenger numbers fell 12% in 2025/26 after jet fuel prices almost doubled and fares rose by up to 40%, leaving several carriers with negative balance sheets, their association says.
Two mountains earn almost all of Nepal's climbing royalties
Everest in spring and Manaslu in autumn account for nearly nine-tenths of permit revenue, leaving dozens of other open peaks with a sliver of the income after the 2025 fee rise.
Nepal's hotels can host four million visitors a year. About 1.2 million come
A year after the protest fires, most damaged hotels have reopened, but the deeper problem for owners is a room stock built for three times the tourists who actually arrive.
Ang Tshering Sherpa built the Yeti group from a trekking kitchen. His heirs inherited its hardest tests
Seven years after the Yeti founder died in a helicopter crash, the group he built has lost control of its airline to an insurer, is preparing a share offering and faces a court case over state land in Kathmandu.
Nepal's two new international airports are still waiting for international flights
Pokhara has its first daily foreign service, nearly four years after opening. Bhairahawa has had none since March. Both have bills to pay.
One year after the uprising, insurers have paid less than two-fifths of claims
The September 2025 protests cost the private sector Rs 33.5bn (about $216m) by official count. Businesses are still waiting for most of the money.
Tourism recovers from the uprising as China returns and Manaslu snows shut
Arrivals rose 12% in September and climbing royalties are up, but bad weather and a still-gutted Hilton show how fragile the season remains.
Indian visitors pay by phone in Nepal; Nepalis in India still cannot
QR codes have become Nepal's most-used digital payment, and Indian tourists are using them everywhere from temples to tills, but the reverse link remains unfinished.
Binod Chaudhary, Nepal's only billionaire, a year after the fire
The uprising burned his home and the election that followed took his seat, yet Forbes still values Nepal's only billionaire at $2.1bn and the new prime minister has invited him to talk investment.
Shesh Ghale and Jamuna Gurung slip to 150th on Australia's rich list
The couple behind the Melbourne Institute of Technology have made Australia's rich list for 18 straight years, but have slid from around 80th as their Kathmandu hotel, begun in 2014, finally nears opening.