Wednesday, 26 February 2014. I was in the air, while starting this blog. I was travelling to Kuala Lumpur to participate in the travel fair organized by AirAsia. After few hours of flight I was not feeling well. It might be flight sickness. I took a long nap in business class without doing any business.
On the first day of travel fair, 28 Feb 2014, Mr. Tony Fernandez, Owner of AirAsia, visited our Nepal Tourism Stall. We were so happy that we had no words to explain the moment. I was wearing Nepali cap, Palpali Dhaka Topi, at the stall. Looking at my cap, he wanted to borrow my cap for a while to take a photo. We had Mount Everest banner to represent Nepal as an adventure destination. A bunch of photographer, and media people clicked Tony & our team infront of Mt. Everest banner. He was saying, let's go to Kathmandu, go to Nepal, go to Everest, the highest point on Earth, popularly known as the third pole. Lots of people are aware about Mt. Everest but not aware where it is situated. We were able to educate the visitors that Mt. Everest is in Nepal and it is an adventure destination.
Similarly the case of Lumbini, we had an opportunity to educate the visitors about the birth place of Lord Buddha is Lumbini, in Nepal.
Malaysian are easy travellers. They do not want to walk neither they like to trek. A very few young enthusiasts are fond of adventure lovers. They showed interest on bungey jump, swing, zipp flying, paragliding, etc.
Lot's of Malaysian heard about Kathmandu, Nagarkot, Pokhara, and not so interested in Chitwan, may be because of less information on Jungle activities at Chitwan.
We felt there is lot of opportunity to tap this market if we can educate them that Nepal has a very good harmony in between Hindu & Buddhist religion. One can see devotees visiting both temple and stupas at the same time. This kind of harmony is rare in the world. Before entering in Hindu Temple we see Buddhist stupas and idols of Hindu god and goddess at the entrance of Buddhist Viharas & stupas in Kathmandu Valley.
Come on and see this unique harmony. Feel & experience the social harmony.
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