Hotel Trekkers Paradise: The Pioneers of Trekking in Mardi Himal
The country wide lockdown had only started to lift when the ICIMOD Tourovation Hub welcomed 8 tourism enterprises. It all started virtually with entrepreneurs joining the program through ZOOM and it was one of those calls where Sudip Gautam, owner of Hotel Trekkers Paradise and Restaurant in Mardi High Camp gave us a virtual glimpse of the breathtaking Himalayan range from the high camp at Mardi Himal.
I-Cube Startup Spotlight: Urja Lab
Meet Urja Lab, one of our amazing startups of the I-Cube 2020 cohort from Pokhara! As we launched our third I-Cube incubation program in Kathmandu last year, our team was excited with their application that came from Pokhara valley. While envisioning to roll out this all virtual program, their application helped us realize the possibility to support brilliant startups that operate beyond Kathmandu!
Prototyping Partnerships at Fab Lab Nepal
Since our launch of FabLab Nepal in early February, we were curious about what next will unfold for our users in the Nepali market. Indeed, bringing this big giant to a country like Nepal was a huge achievement and this month we worked with King’s College students and faculty to fabricate some cool prototypes! We also had the Kathmandu University School of Education masters students and faculty use our electronics equipment to conduct a demo session to integrate STEAM learning into the Nepali curriculum.
