On the eve of national tourism campaign "Nepal Tourism Year" (NTY-2011), Nepal has unveiled two Chinese books on Sunday targeting Nepali tour guides and Nepalis who have little Chinese language background.

Nepal is observing the year 2011 as the year of tourism with the aim of alluring more than one million international tourists among which more than 100,000 Chinese tourists are expected to visit the country.

"Nepali government has given high priority to Chinese tourists visiting Nepal as per its policy. Our target is to increase Chinese tourists each year," said Kishor Thapa, Secretary at the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation of Nepal.

According to him, those Chinese visitors coming to Nepal are dominantly tourists and businessmen.

In the year 2009, more than 35,000 Chinese visitors arrived Nepal and government has analyzed that this number can be doubled during 2011 if heedful attention paid for promotional activities in China this year.

In contrast to the soaring number of Chinese visitor arrivals in Nepal, the number of Chinese speaking Nepali tour guides are limited. There are only 40 licensed Chinese speaking tour guides in Nepal.

To fulfill this need and to ease the communication during NTY- 2011, many youngsters are learning to speak Chinese.