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The Nepal Association of Tour Operators (NATO) has expressed serious concern over the series of nationwide protests being launched by the UCPN (Maoist).

The protest programmes have come at a time when Nepal's tourism industry had been showing signs of gradual recovery, read a press statement issued by NATO.

The release added that the agitation cast blight on this extremely vulnerable sector of the national economy that can only thrive in a stable political climate.

The private sector has worked very hard with each of the governments since the Constituent Assembly elections to try to regain the proper destination image at the international level, which had been soiled by frequent strikes and closures. As a result, the international community has only recently begun to look positively at promoting travel to Nepal, it said.

NATO has appealed to the UCPN (Maoist) and its sister organizations to refrain from any activity that could adversely cripple tourism activities and the movement of tourists. nepalnews.com

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Anonymous   |90.220.233.xxx |2009-11-03 17:10:25 NATO! it is not time to show your concern over maoists agitation in Nepal. It is time to take action agains those b*ds. They have done enough damage to the country. joshan  - upset   |212.165.131.xxx |2009-11-03 07:16:34 hi i work in afganistan in nato base but i just want to say that nepal is being polluted by all the criminal activities and therefore nepal is not a safe zone to travel and the goverment people should deliver the the healthy enviroment into the country and then the tourisim is accepatable in nepal. Dika  - Oh another bull   |115.64.201.xxx |2009-11-03 06:41:42 Oh I thought it was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, THE NATO, not another one duplicate Nato. Bastards, country of duplicates! Bastards, you are not satisfied by making duplicate chappals and chau chau. Now you want to make a duplicate organization. you. thapa  - Tourism as a back bone..   |114.148.119.xxx |2009-11-03 04:13:10 Tourism being the backbone of Nepal's economy, gov. and the opposition parties should be seriously concerned not to hinder this sector. Nepal's toursim has not fostered for the decades long undesirable atmosphere, parties call for strikes and closures. A consution that peserves the human rights of tourists as well as common people should be introduced for the betterment. Tul Prasad gurung  - NATO   |202.79.45.xxx |2009-11-03 04:09:48 Every drop has its own world. Each world has its own rules and regulation. But Nepal what world and what rules and regulation. If people want real world and its rules and regulation then they should start from begining because "Babul ko buta umraye pachi Am ko buta umrincha ta!" Am ko nai umraunu cha bhane Babul ko buta lai ta hataunu paryo ukhalnu paryo ni. Tesarth nepal's condition is very same here many babuls tress are there so need to clean from its root so we can saw Mango plant. Powered by !JoomlaComment 3.26

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