Maya Ko Pahichan Nepal, a non-profit organization advocating for the rights of the sexual and gender minorities, has announced Rehan Shrestha as the ambassador for the First International Pink Tourism Conference to be held on April 20-21.
Earlier, he was appointed as the ambassador for Visit Nepal 2020.
Organizing a press conference on Friday, the MKPN announced content creator and blogger Parakram Rana and woman entrepreneur Dr Mausam Bohara as the star promoters for the conference, according to Pahichan, an online news portal.
Blogger Lex Limbu has already been appointed the star ambassador for the conference.
Maya Ko Pahichan Nepal the Nepal Tourism Board are jointly organizing the conference.
Dr Bohara, as a successful woman entrepreneur, is expected to play a supportive role in promoting pink tourism.
During the program, Dr Bohara urged people to come together to make the event a grand success while Rana said that Nepal is a safe country for sexual and gender minorities. “Nepal is a safe country,” Rana said, adding, “I invite you to come to Nepal.”
Asia’s first openly gay former lawmaker of Nepal and also Executive Director for the Mayako Pahichan Nepal Sunil Babu Pant believes that the conference will play an important role in promoting Nepal’s tourism.
Pant, who is the pink tourism Cultural Ambassador for the Nepal, expressed the hope that Nepal’s gross domestic product would be boosted through pink tourism.
Maniraj Lamichhane, the NTB director underlined the importance of the conference saying travel companies have shown interest after training 24 people from the sexual and gender minority communities as trekking guides with the financial support of UNDP. The trained people have already started the jobs.
