Tourism Ministry plans major restructuring

  The minister of culture tourism and civil Aviation plans to open two departments and an Aviation safety study agency in a bid to make more efficient the country’s tourism and aviation sector tourism and aviation sector. The two departments and the agency will purpose straight under the ministry. According to ministry officials , the present tourism business separation will bra efficient as the Department of culture and museum will be set up to conserve and refresh the country’s cultural and natural heritage . The Department of tourism will be responsible for as long as services in the most efficient manner besides adaptable the country’s tourism industry.

  Training for creating the tourism Department will be finished by this fiscal year and it will start working under its new avatar by the next fiscal said Mohan Krishna sapkota representative of the ministry. This department will make sure that the licenses necessary to set up businesses like hotels and travel agencies are issued on time besides formulate policy on tax and other matters in the view of the need asset said government officials. The department will also create single window system regarding the issuance of licenses and permits for new hospitality businesses. For example an capitalist wishing to open a five star hotel has to go through various. The tourism division issues the operating licenses in the last phase. Similarly the future Department of culture and museum of culture and museum will deal with both tangible and intangible heritage resources and consider museums as key vehicles for their conservation and promotion. Sapkota said that they would be conduct friendship and methods before happening with the plan to set up the new departments.

   Meanwhile the planned Aviation safely study bureau will recommend and give inputs on the developments and weakness in the area of aviation safety. IT will have a team of experts to study trends to simplify complex matters in the aviation sector said sapkota. The think tank will be authorized to examine any air accident. the experts will be hired on a contract basis As every probe panel formed to examine air crashes has been criticize for being a toothless committee government officials said that such an independent body would help find out the actual reasons behind any crash and also make recommendations to prevent such incidents in the future . Nepal’s aviation safety record has taken a severe blow with a series of air crashes recently. Ministry officials said that the effort to set up an study bureau was encouraged by Nepal’s being blacklisted by the European charge on Dec 5 2013 the Ec banned all Nepal based airlines from flying in the European union terming them unsafe.