Feb 18, 2025

Construction of Karnali Province's first four-star resort begins with investment from NRN Australia

Construction of Karnali Province's first four-star resort begins with investment from NRN Australia

MUGU, Feb 04:On Monday, the construction of Karnali Province's first four-star resort began in Murmatap, Rara. On Monday, the land was worshipped according to with Hindu religion to construct the province's first four-star resort with NRN Australia's investment.

Although hotels with three stars had previously operated in the province, Arun Chand, project manager of Rara Holding Resort Pvt. Ltd., stated that this is the first time a four-star resort is being built. At the third investment conference conducted by the government in Kathmandu last year, a team led by Nepali NRN Abhishek Bikram Shah, who is currently in Australia, expressed a commitment to built a four-star resort in Rara as a 'dream project'.

He stated that, in accordance with the same commitment, Rara Holding Resort Pvt. Ltd. has inked an agreement with the federal government to complete the building within 18 months. The resort's first phase, covering 73 ropanis, would cost NPR 1 billion and include 36 rooms, while the second phase will add 19 more, increasing the total capacity to 98 beds.

It will serve 100 domestic and foreign tourists every day. Ain Bahadur Shahi, Minister for Tourism, Forest, and Environment, is slated to formally lay the resort's foundation stone on February 12, according to Rara Holding Resort Pvt Ltd.

The resort is being built to attract tourists to Karnali's holy regions by connecting Sinja Valley, Rara, Chhayanath, and Khaptad. The infrastructural building of the resort, which will be erected at an elevation of 3,500 meters above sea level, will commence the following March/April. 

According to Prem Shahi, a resort representative, 120 people would have direct employment after the construction, while over 1,000 will have indirect employment. Shahi states that the goal of this project is to attract in religious tourists from India.

This resort will have 98 beds in 55 rooms, a 100-capacity seminar hall, with views of Rara and the Himalayan range from each room.
The panorama landscape of seven districts may be viewed after arriving at Murmatap, which is 30 minutes above the resort.

Shahi stated that the resort's construction has begun because all of the tourists that visit Rara complain about a lack of good dining and hotel options.

 Over a dozen hotels have been open in the Rara area's Ghatta and Salleri for a few years, but they have struggled to accommodate tourists at the peaks season of the year. 

Since the first four-star resort in Karnali Province will be constructed in Murmatap, tourists to Rara won't have any trouble lodging or dining there, according to Birkh Rokaya, a hotelier from Chhayanath Rara Municipality-8.

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