Kingdom Nepal is an ancient country. It has numerous interesting God gifted natural resources and rich cultural and historical inheritance which are potentially important circumstance for the development of mobile international tourism. The beginning of mass tourist travel to Nepal may accept 1962, when 6.2 thousand tourists are sojourn in the country. Their number increased to 345 thousand (approximately) in 1995 and economically the percentage share of inbond tourism in GDP was the achievement of 3.8 percentage for the year 1992.
Nepal proves to be an attractive center for the development of active tourism with its diverse nature, rich culture, hospitable people, interesting national cuisine and irreproachable services in the hotels. In 1975 the country received 92440 foreign tourist, in 1992 it increased to 334353 tourists, (but being the cause of political recession and environment pollution in 1993 and India's Plague disease in 1994 it decreased to 293567 and 326531 tourists respectively. But in 1995 it increased to 354 thousand, in which 322749 are by air only. Among them 63.51 percents are foreigner and 36.49 percents are Indians.
The total volume of foreign exchange earnings from tourism in the last few years matured from 51.632 million US Dollars in 1980 to 63.701 million US Dollars in 1990 and 88.195 million US Dollars in 1994. The all-in-all volume of foreign exchange earning from tourism for the period of 1980-1994 is increased by 1.71 times i.e. a sheer increment by 1.42% per annum whereas the total volume of tourist flow to Nepal is increase by 2.07 times i.e. a mean increase by 6.2% per annum.
Besides that the average income per tourist decreased from 422.5 US Dollars in 1980 to 339.74 US Dollars in 1994 and the average income per visitor per day got diminished from 38 US Dollars in 1980 to 33.97 US Dollars in 1994. It comes to prove us that the tourism in Nepal is eventually developed by extensive or Budget tourism. On another side the percentage share of the income of convertible foreign exchange from tourist's expenditure decrease from 23.26% in 1980 to 12.36% in 1994 which is not favourable for the entire economic development of Nepal. It shows that the government revenue from Tourism got decreased by 9.77 point during the period of 1980-1994. The percentage share of foreign exchange income in relation to the total "invisible income" is calculated as 42.67% in 1994 which made tourism the second big resources of "invisible income" for the country.