Ashu : Most of us are already doing that .. way before these diplomats.. But promoting tourism is one thing and promoting it in sustainable way is different. I would rather go for local, internal, and regional tourism. My own experience says that nepalese tourism industry dont see Nepalese , Indians and other Southasians as tourist and it reflects on their behaviour toward these groups. Ye dai yo ta tourist haru ko lagi matrai ho!! I hope you have heard sentences like this many times in Thamel and Pokhara. I was so shocked to see a notice in one of the hotels in Thamel -written; " Nepalese are not allowed in this hotel". One Nepali visiting Ilam from Kathmandu probably spends more money than any average Khaire doing same. I guess Indians are not closedfisted when it comes to travelling. Simply because it is luxury for us to travel and we want to do it in style. So instead of spending all our money and resource in promoting tourism in the western world , it is high time to think spending some of these in our own part of the world.