WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE OFF SEASON NOW. WILL THERE BE ENOUGH INITIATIVES TO BOOST THIS SEASONALITY ISSUE. WE WILL HAVE TO HAVE LOT OF FAITH IN THE TCB TO RESOLVE THIS FOR THE TOURISM INDUSTRY TO FILL THE HOTELS, EMPLOY GUIDES ETC.

ANYWAY, IT WAS A FRUITFUL DAY AND A WIN-WIN SITUATION FOR ALL…. CONGRATULATIONS!!!

You are doing a great job and I thank you for it. It makes me proud to see that we can have such honest and articulate members of parliament in Bhutan.

I’m glad you looked at the actual numbers of tourists in Nepal. Now look a little further: how many tourists visit France, the top tourist destination?

I’ll give you the answer. With a population of 65 million, France gets about 80 million tourists annually. Also, with a population of 5 million, Singapore gets over 10 million visitors annually. Obviously neither Paris nor Singapore looks like a giant rubbish dump as Kathmandu.

So – it is not the high number of tourists that makes Kathmandu look like a dump. It is something else (people who know Nepal might suggest: maladministration, corruption, resulting poverty, lack of proper sewage, building codes, urban planning, overall lack of a government that feels responsible for the future of the city… etc. etc.).

So can I humbly plead with you not to focus on the single aspect of visitor numbers, as this is not in itself a problem? Look globally at visitor numbers as a function of Bhutan’s ability to receive them.

If we can provide efficient transportation – wide roads up from Phuentsholing instead of the current Indian-made falling-rock disaster zone, if we can provide efficient policing so any visitor who causes trouble or breaks laws is quickly and silently dealt with and expelled, if we can provide good road cleaning, garbage removal, water treatment and sewage disposal so that the visitors do not have an adverse impact on our environment, and if we can properly control entries so that they are limited to the areas of our country with the capacity to implement all of this

- then I humbly suggest that having more visitors could actually be good for the country, even if we get 1 million visitors annually.

But if we do not address our infrastructure, and just try to hang on to this previously useful but now very outdated model of shipping tourists around like pricy cattle through our undeveloped hinterland

- then we should forget about making more money from tourism and focus on some other sector.

DANGER AWAITS AND DANGER LOOMS. WE ARE DOOMED.

rest i agree to other comments, our PM goes to Brazil just to admit that Bhutan is Behind is implementing GNH. If the money Paid or supposed to be paid to Mckinsey is invested in Bhutan, that would have made more sense and indeed helped many peoples in the villages. let me stop here, dont wanna show my frustration.

Sometimes, it makes me think that our policy makers sits on their head and use their ass, may be they think what ever they propose is great and perfectly genius!