Zalaphama Cafeteria

The Zalaphama centenary cafeteria is located at an elevation of 1356m and is 35 Kms from Mongar town and 51 Kms before reaching Trashigang. It was constructed by the tourism Council of Bhutan and provides food and refreshments. The staff of the facility has been trained in cooking and pastry by Training Unit of TCB. [...]

World Tourism Day- September 27th 2009 “Tourism :Celebrating Diversity”

It was during the third session (Spain, September 1979), that the General Assembly of the World Tourism Organization (WTO) decided to institute World Tourism Day, commencing in the year 1980.World Tourism Day is to be commemorated on 27th September each year by appropriate events on themes selected by the General Assembly, on recommendation of UN-WTO’s [...]

Bhutan awarded “top country” certificate

The Tourism Council of Bhutan, recently received a certificate from the Wanderlust Travel magazine awarding Bhutan the finalist “Top Country 2009” for the Wanderlust travel awards. Bhutan was one of the top 10 finalists for the Wanderlust Travel Awards. In 2005, Bhutan won the Silver award from the Wanderlust Travel Awards for the “Top Country”. [...]

Response to expected slowdown of tourist arrival due to the global economic downturn

The growth of tourism worldwide has been affected by rising oil prices resulting in increase in transport costs, security concerns and the current economic downturn. Particularly, the growth in arrivals for the Asia-Pacific region since August 2008 was recorded at 4% well behind the 7% registered for the same period last year. The United Nations [...]

“Workshop on Sustainability Indicators for Tourism Destinations”

A practical training programme for sustainable destination management and monitoring in Paro Dzongkhag. Tourism arrivals are still on the increase in Bhutan, providing the country a great opportunity to generate revenue and employment. To guarantee sustainable tourism development and continue maximizing the potential of the tourism sector in line with the national policy, the Tourism [...]

84th Session of the executive council of UNWTO

Madrid 15 October 2008: UNWTO’s Executive Council (Madrid 14-15 October) agrees to create a “Resilience Committee” to support its Members with accurate economic analysis and response mechanisms. The tourism sector is suffering from reduced consumer demand – business and leisure – and tourism businesses are already feeling the credit crunch. International tourism registered solid growth [...]

Discover Bhutan Magazine Launched

May 15, 2008 | “Discover Bhutan” Magazine is a bi-annual magazine published by ABTO in conjunction with Rabsell Media Services. “Discover Bhutan” is an all – in – one travel magazine offering insights and inspirations about Bhutan. The magazine showcases in-depth travel articles, features on destinations, specialist subjects, regular columns from industry experts, write up [...]

Austrian Delegation to discuss Curriculum for HTMTI

April 30, 2008 | Mr. Leonhard Woerndl, the Dean at the Hotel & Tourism Management Institute, Klessheim, Salzburg and Ms. Gabriele Tischler, Assistant to the Managing Director, Academy Schloss Urstein Privatstiftung, Salzburg represented the team from Austria for the development of the Curriculum Development, Teacher Training and Technical Assistance in the operative phase for the [...]

New Cafeteria in Mongar

April 26, 2008 | A new cafeteria in Zalaphangma, Mongar constructed under the planned program of the TCB has been recently completed. The cafeteria was established to facilitate to cater to the needs of the domestic and international travelers. Inorder to spread the benefits to the locals, the management will be carried on by the [...]

Paro Tsechu Arrivals, 2008

April 9, 2008 | This year the number of tourists who visited during the Paro Tshechu went up to 2,273 from last years 1,755.