In 2025, more than 15,000 tourists, both foreign and domestic, visited the Manaslu region, most of whom obtained permits online.
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In 2025, 15,000 foreign tourists visited the Manaslu region. Despite unseasonal floods, landslides, snowfall, and the Genji movement, the number of tourists visiting the Manaslu region has increased.
Before that, the number of foreign tourists visiting the Manaslu region in 2024 was 12,800. According to the records prepared by the Manaslu Conservation Area Project (MCAP), 14,980 tourists entered the Manaslu region of Gorkha in 2025. The Manaslu Conservation Area Project (MCAP) has stated that 14,738 foreigners, 344 from SAARC countries and 240 domestic tourists entered.
According to MCAP Chief Santosh Sherchan, 14,721 people had obtained permission online to enter the Manaslu region. Similarly, 17 tourists obtained permission from MCAP's Jagat and Samagaun checkpoints, he informed.
In 2025, Rs 38.586 crore was collected as a conservation area entry fee for tourism entry. Out of which Rs 344 thousand was collected from SAARC tourists and Rs 48 thousand from Nepali tourists.
Tourists from SAARC countries have to pay Rs 1,000 per person and tourists from other countries have to pay Rs 3,000 per person to enter the Manaslu region. 'There is a provision that tourists have to pay the entry fee at the counters at Bhrikutimandap in Kathmandu and Damsite in Pokhara,' he said. 'Tourists who have not paid the entry fee at both these places have to pay double the fee at the MCAP Jagat and Samagaun checkpoints to enter the region.'
In the case of Nepali tourists, he says, an entry fee of Rs 100 per person has been set. Earlier, MCAP, which used to collect details of only foreign tourists, has started keeping details of Nepali tourists from 2025, he informed.
According to MCAP data, only 9,782 tourists visited the Manaslu region in the fiscal year 2080/81, 7,705 in 2079/80 and 2,284 in 2078/79. MCAP chief Sherchan says it is pleasing to see the number of tourists increasing every year.
The number of tourists visiting the area was the lowest in 2077/78, at just 194, compared to 5,338 in 2076/77 and 7,655 in 2075/76.
