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Tourism industry loses millions with Kailash Yatra closed

by Sangam Prasain & Rupa Gahatraj in The Kathmandu Post, Apr 1, 2023Thousands of Hindu pilgrims from India used to come to Nepalgunj in southwestern Nepal every year to fly to Simikot, from where they would enter Tibet for the Kailash Manasarovar Yatra. The religious travellers would fill the hotels and restaurants, and keep travel agents, airlines, guides and porters busy. The annual pilgrimage season would be boom time for the tourism industry, and the…