Despite series of booking cancellations due to the disrupted telephones and Internet last week, tourism entrepreneurs are all smiles now about business prospects. The cancellations should be no problem at all, says Bhola Thapa of President Travel. What matters for us now is that the situation is improving and soon we will see boom in travel trade.

Tour operators have seen massive cancellations in the wake of the disruption in telecommunication. But they believe that the situation, at least in Kathmandu, is fast improving and they are spreading the word. We do not know what is happening outside Kathmandu but in the capital we have seen that things have changed tremendously and we are informing our international travel agents about it, said Ravi Poudel of the Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents.