Nepal, July 10 -- The year 2020 was supposed to be great for Nepal's tourism industry. 'Visit Nepal 2020', a tourism campaign, was hoping to attract two million tourists into the country. But as coronavirus started spreading rapidly across the world, Nepal's tourism industry, like tourism industries all across the globe, came to a grinding halt, and it didn't take long for tourism stakeholders to realise 2020 is going to one of the toughest years the industry has ever had to face. Almost four months into the pandemic, and with the virus continuing to spread rapidly, the years ahead look uncertain for the industry.

To better understand the pandemic's impact on the tourism industry and how it is navigating in these uncertain times, the Pos...