That is how much the government says it plans to spend on tourism promotion this year. But the Nepal Tourism Board is conspicuously absent in the Tourism Ministry statement. The announcement also says the promotion program will be formulated, implemented and monitored by a committee headed by the Minister for Tourism and Civil Aviation. Industry sources say there is a message there to NTB which might have been sidelined because it has been unable to produce results, or the money will simply be a source of slush funds. Everything the committee proposes to undertake is already being done by the Board.