The head of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called for more tie-ups in the airline industry as the struggling sector braces for rising oil prices.
Airline “mergers and consolidation is a must,” Giovanni Bisignani, IATA’s director-general and CEO, told a Tokyo press conference Monday before meeting government and airport executives. “I strongly support consolidation.”
His [...]

Tourist arrival to Nepal in the first month of 2010 recorded an increment of 18.8 percent compared to the arrival figures of same period last year.
According to the figures released by Immigration Office, Tribhuvan International Airport, a total of 26,071 visitors entered Nepal in January. Growth in January was contributed by increment in arrivals from [...]

Issuing a press statement, NTB said the year ended with positive notes in the sense that arrivals from China witnessed an encouraging surge. Arrivals from China increased by a whopping 51.4 percent in December. Visitors from other Asian countries, excluding SAARC countries, also increased. According to NTB, tourist arrivals from South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and [...]