Nepal is expecting at least "500,000 Chinese tourists", "at least 150,000 British visitors", "target of 2 million tourists" and much more. In Nepal, the year 2020 is marked as a campaign 'Visit Nepal Year (VNY) 2020' as the program/campaign is organized to promote tourism in Nepal. The quoted numbers above are just an example and the visitors are expected from all over the globe. Let's not forget the patterns, facts, and trends of "Hacker Tourism" that have been seen rising remarkably in the previous years.
Let's just take a hypothetical assumption where there will be cyber guys willing to disguise through the border, bypassing the border forces, get inside the soil, and potentially eradicate the Cyber Economy. The assumption could be theoretically proved wrong, however, it couldn't be disregarded either. In fact, there could already be a handful of APT groups planning to proxy their route via Nepal, roll their hax and skedaddle through the foobar into the thin air! There are threats and the threats for the cyber side of VNY2020 are for 'real'.
Let us all keep an eye out for the potential cyber warriors unloading their skillset onto the VNY2020 campaign. Let's not give us a chance to read the "Mega Breach" news titles popping all over the pages and the internet this year. Let's not fall a cyber victim and watch out for potential moves in an amenable way.
Source for italic quotes:
1. https://www.nepalitimes.com/banner/chinese-tourist-influx-to-nepal-in-2020/
2. https://www.nepal24hours.com/visit-nepal-2020-campaign-kicks-off-in-uk/
3. https://www.nepalitimes.com/business/turkish-and-visit-nepal-2020-sign-mou/
(Originally, this article was published on January 6, 2020.)