Nepal Tourism Boardनेपाल पर्यटन बोर्ड

What does it do?

• “NTB promotes Nepal as a premier holiday destination in the international and new media.” ntb.gov.np About Us
• “Fund for NTB is collected in the form of tourist service fee from departing foreign passengers at the Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu, thus keeping it financially independent.” ntb.gov.np About Us
• Established to develop, expand and promote the tourism business by establishing Nepal as an attractive tourist destination internationally. giwmscdnone.gov.np NTB Act 2053, s.3(1); objectives in s.5

Which law set it up?

What the law says is summarised with section numbers, not quoted, because text copied from the official PDFs is not reliable.

Law

Nepal Tourism Board Act, 1997नेपाल पर्यटन बोर्ड ऐन, २०५३

Section

Section 3(1) (बोर्डको स्थापना); s.4 makes it an autonomous body corporate

Official text

lawcommission.gov.np

History

“Nepal Tourism Board is a national tourism organization of Nepal established in 1998 by an Act of Parliament in the form of partnership between the Government of Nepal and private sector tourism industry to develop and market Nepal as an attractive tourist destination” ntb.gov.np About Us, opening paragraph

Who leads it and who oversees it?

Head

Mr. Mukunda Prasad Niraula, Chairman, Executive Committee (Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation) ntb.gov.np Checked 2026-10-16

Falls under

No official source found stating that it is under a ministry. The Act says: The Board must keep contact with the Government of Nepal through the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation; the Act's end note records that this ministry is now the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation. The ministry's Secretary chairs the Board's executive committee (NTB Act 2053, s.24, s.9(2)(क) and end note).

Website

ntb.gov.np

What could we not establish?

• The chair is the ministry Secretary ex officio. The board list's 11th entry reads 'Hikmat Singh Ayer, Senior Director, Email: ceo@ntb.gov.np' and does not say whether he is the Chief Executive Officer or acting in that role, so the chief executive is not recorded.मन्त्रालयका सचिव पदेन अध्यक्ष हुन्छन्। सञ्चालक सूचीको ११औँ प्रविष्टिमा ‘Hikmat Singh Ayer, Senior Director, Email: ceo@ntb.gov.np’ छ, तर उहाँ प्रमुख कार्यकारी अधिकृत वा सो पदमा कार्यवाहक हो कि होइन भन्ने खुलेको छैन। त्यसैले प्रमुख कार्यकारीको नाम अभिलेख गरिएको छैन।
• The About Us page carries two versions of its text: one says the Board is chaired by the Secretary of the 'Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation', the other the 'Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation'.परिचय पृष्ठमा पाठका दुई संस्करण छन्: एउटाले बोर्डको अध्यक्ष ‘पर्यटन तथा नागरिक उड्डयन मन्त्रालय’का सचिव हुने भन्छ, अर्कोले ‘संस्कृति, पर्यटन तथा नागरिक उड्डयन मन्त्रालय’का सचिव हुने भन्छ।
• The Nepali name is taken from the Act title; no Nepali page of the NTB site was fetched.नेपाली नाम ऐनको शीर्षकबाट लिइएको हो; बोर्डको वेबसाइटको नेपाली पृष्ठ प्राप्त गरिएको छैन।