Just days before Visit Nepal Year kicks off, Nepal Tourism Board finds itself with a vacant CEO seat after the former CEO Deepak Raj Joshi�s term ended on December 24. Nepal Tourism Board had proposed to extend the duration of Joshi�s term by a couple of months but Joshi refused as he would not be able to reapply for the position again. There are noticeable concerns as the country�s tourism board has no CEO going into Visit Nepal Year 2020. Any implications the vacant position will have on the tourism remains to be seen. A three-member search committee led by Biplab Paudel, executive director of Hotel Barahi, Pokhara, has been formed to fill the vacant CEO spot.