The number of Chinese visitor arrivals has been drastically soared up in Nepal since August, showed the figure released by Nepal's Immigration Office, Tribhuvan International Airport.

This change has occurred meaningfully at the time when Nepal is launching a national campaign called "National Tourism Year-2011" to attract more and more tourists in a national and international level.

"In the month of August 2009, there was a robust growth of tourist arrival from China by 87 percent compared to the same month last year," according to Nepal Tourism Board (NTB).

In August this year, Nepal witnessed 1,031 visitors from China which was only 550 in the same month of last year. The figure showed steady trend of visitor arrivals from China in the month of September and October too with the figures 2,518 and 2,870, respectively.

"The reason is so simple, why the Chinese visitor arrivals are increasing in Nepal since the past few months because they like Nepal," Aditya Baral, director and the spokesperson of NTB told Xinhua on Saturday.

"This is the result of our promotional effort and the natural diversity that Nepal possesses. Nepal, as a close friendly neighbor of China, is the birthplace of Lord Buddha apart from many marvelous cultural heritages," he added.

The most striking reason behind soaring up visitor arrivals is air-way passage backing up more and more flights connecting various cities of China with the capital Kathmandu, Baral said.