The number of tourists visiting the Khumbu region recorded a new high in 2007, owing largely to a ban in the movement of tourists in the Tibet side by China on the back Olympic game to be held after few months in Beijing.
According to the Sagarmatha National Park (SNP) office, 26,000 visitors were recorded last year, up from 25,191 recorded in 1999, the previous record.
Local hoteliers said the number went up due tourist trekking and mountaineering groups shifted to Nepal from Tibet.
According to Ang Dorje Sherpa, proprietor of Namche Hotel, mountaineers outnumber the trekkers during spring season. He said the number of tourists shot up during the period due to forth coming Beijing Olympic which diverted mountaineers to Nepal from the Chinese autonomous region Tibet.
More than 10,000 visitors entered the Khumbu region, where the world's highest peak Mt. Everest lies- during the first four month of this year, said SNP's data. "Local hotels of the Khumbu region were fully occupied by foreign guests during the main season," said Neema Doma Sherpa, who runs Sherpa Land Hotel in the Khumbu Region.
With the number of visitors continuing to increase, new hotels are also on the rise in the area which is also one of the most preferred trekking and mountaineering routes in the world. According to local tourism entrepreneurs, almost half a dozen new hotels open along the route every year. Most of the tourists, who use the Tenzing-Hilary Airport, trek to the Mt Everest base camp, Kala Patthar, Mera Peak, Gyoko Renzola, and Tengboche areas.
Movement of tourists in the Khumbu region had begun from 1953 when Tenzing Sherpa and Edmond Hillary first conquered the tallest peak of the world.
According to the Sagarmatha National Park (SNP) office, 26,000 visitors were recorded last year, up from 25,191 recorded in 1999, the previous record.
Local hoteliers said the number went up due tourist trekking and mountaineering groups shifted to Nepal from Tibet.
According to Ang Dorje Sherpa, proprietor of Namche Hotel, mountaineers outnumber the trekkers during spring season. He said the number of tourists shot up during the period due to forth coming Beijing Olympic which diverted mountaineers to Nepal from the Chinese autonomous region Tibet.
More than 10,000 visitors entered the Khumbu region, where the world's highest peak Mt. Everest lies- during the first four month of this year, said SNP's data. "Local hotels of the Khumbu region were fully occupied by foreign guests during the main season," said Neema Doma Sherpa, who runs Sherpa Land Hotel in the Khumbu Region.
With the number of visitors continuing to increase, new hotels are also on the rise in the area which is also one of the most preferred trekking and mountaineering routes in the world. According to local tourism entrepreneurs, almost half a dozen new hotels open along the route every year. Most of the tourists, who use the Tenzing-Hilary Airport, trek to the Mt Everest base camp, Kala Patthar, Mera Peak, Gyoko Renzola, and Tengboche areas.
Movement of tourists in the Khumbu region had begun from 1953 when Tenzing Sherpa and Edmond Hillary first conquered the tallest peak of the world.
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