Tourism in Bhutan is seasonal and getting tourists to visit the country throughout the year has always been a big challenge for the tour operators.
The challenge has been accepted and people in the tourism business jointly are finding a way to flatten seasonality so that the flow of tourist will remain throughout the year.
Last week officials from the Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB), Hotel Association of Bhutan, tour operators, Druk Air official and other consultants got together and discuss how this issue could be addressed.
They talked about the new products which could be introduced for the tourist and the additional services which could be provided.
According to TCB they have already introduced a few festivals such as Takin festival and Haa festival to attract tourist, which according to them has not been very successful because the tour operators are not offering these in their packages.
One of the products the group discussed about was starting meditation and monastic retreats.
TCB said that tour operators can create their own attractive packages or use packages developed by their experts, which would be marketed by TCB as well as individual tour operators.
One of the tour operator said that the biggest challenge to flatten seasonality is infrastructure.
We would love to feature Bhutan in our end of July issue – looking at the Royal Wedding in October.
This will make a fantastic story of royal mystique and romance!
There are not many kingdoms left in the world – Bhutan is definitely a last Shangri-La, of out-standing beauty and stuff of legend!
A promotion to offer our readers the chance to win a trip of a life time; to visit in October when the royal wedding takes place – would be magnificent!
I would most definitely invite your participation.
Please contact me so that we can put this together.
Our readers would love it!
We are also featuring the Chitwan National Park in this issue, looking at the tiger conservation programme with WWF (possibly with a cameo on Leonardo DiCaprio as WWF’s celebrity ambassador – save the tiger).
A fantastic issue – with Bhutan; more than fantastic!
Look forward to hearing from you.
Best Regards
Jane Poretsis
Business Development
Himalayas Nepal publications
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