Kathmandu, 5 October:  The arrival of foreign tourists in Nepal has gradually caught the track. In the past 10 months, around 500,000 foreign tourists visited Nepal, according to data with the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB). The figure is huge increase as compared to the figure in 2020 and 2021 when the pandemic was at its peak. The Covid-19 pandemic had ruined the tourism sector. The country recorded the arrival of slightly over 230,000 tourists in 2020, a sharp drop by a whopping 81 percent against over 1.19 million tourists in 2019 just before the infection. Similarly, in 2021, the number of foreign tourist arrival further dropped by 34.4 percent to slightly over 150,000 as compared to 2020. People's News Monitoring Service