BHUTAN TIMES
The Bhutan Majestic Travel
Written by Dekey Choden Gyeltshen
When it comes to travel business in Bhutan it is all about battle of experience. While a huge chunk of tourists are already taken by the mighty tour operators, the new ones scramble to keep their business going.
But this competition syndrome is giving rise to a host of aspiring tour operators who are using their new found marketing strategy and hospitality services to get the buck rolling in.
The four-year-old travel agent Bhutan Majestic Travel (BMT) founded by a guide turned tour operator, Namgay Dorji, is just doing that. He assures you one of the finest services available in the kingdom. BMT consistent delivery of fine and personalized service in a fast and efficient manner has made them one of Bhutan’s top fifty tour operators.
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BHUTAN TODAY
Global meltdown seems to be the answer most common among those who responded to our question Why, but there could be other factors as well
Jamtsho THIMPHU
All the king’s horses and all the king’ men, as the old rhyme goes, could not put Humpty Dumpty together again. That’s more or less the story of tourism this year in the country, which has fallen drastically by 40 per cent over the same period last year.
Despite more than 400 private tour operators within the country, tourist arrivals, especially for Thimphu Tshechu 2009, has bombed.
The Thimphu and Paro Tshechus are the perfect annual magnets for foreign tourists. Most of them across the globe are drawn to Bhutan especially during these fests, but the number of tourists visiting, at least for the Thimphu gala, has drastically decreased from 3,297 last year to 2,109 this year.
Most tourists visit Bhutan during this time of the year because of salubrious weather conditions, making it the best season for trekking across the country. Most of the religious festivals, like Tshechu and Dromche, also take place this time of the year. Oriental spiritualism, especially Buddhism, is a craze now across the battle-riddled, materialistic and highly disturbed Western world!
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