Established 1968, KGH Group of Hotels and Resorts is Nepal’s leading hotel chain with 7 eco-friendly hotels under its flagship. Karna Sakya, founder of KGH Group, is hailed as the father of tourism in Nepal. He has been given credit for putting Nepal on the tourist map. He is renowned for opening the Kathmandu Guest House in 1968, the company’s first hotel which was instrumental in starting adventure tourism in the country and creating the famous tourism hub of Kathmandu – Thamel.
Under the famous Pomelo tree in the KGH gardens, where once you could spot a celebrity like Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet writing a book, today we continue to host technology savvy travelers in their laptops and cell phones along with international pop stars like Ricky Martin and Jeremy Irons who prefer to stay in a homegrown brand like KGH rather than the popular five stars of the world.
The KGH Foundation, a part of the KGH Group of Hotels and Resorts, was established to instigate and manage the Group’s Corporate Social Responsibility programs.
Firstly to improve our own practices in all our hotels.
Secondly, to focus on health, education, environment and to provide social, economic & welfare support for the underprivileged.
Established 1968, KGH Group of Hotels and Resorts is Nepal’s leading hotel chain with 7 eco-friendly hotels under its flagship. Karna Sakya, founder of KGH Group, is hailed as the father of tourism in Nepal. He has been given credit for putting Nepal on the tourist map. He is renowned for opening the Kathmandu Guest House in 1968, the company’s first hotel which was instrumental in starting adventure tourism in the country and creating the famous tourism hub of Kathmandu – Thamel.
Many renowned writers, mountaineers, researchers and artists have come and left their footprints at our hotels. The KGH Group today has grown from 13-room Guest House in Thamel that hosted the hippies and the mountaineers to a 500 room hotel chain in all the popular tourism destinations of Nepal.
Under the famous Pomelo tree in the KGH gardens, where once you could spot a celebrity like Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet writing a book, today we continue to host technology savvy travelers in their laptops and cell phones along with international pop stars like Ricky Martin and Jeremy Irons who prefer to stay in a homegrown brand like KGH rather than the popular five stars of the world.
The KGH Foundation, a part of the KGH Group of Hotels and Resorts, was established to instigate and manage the Group’s Corporate Social Responsibility programs.
Firstly to improve our own practices in all our hotels.
Secondly, to focus on health, education, environment and to provide social, economic & welfare support for the underprivileged.
KGH Hotels Sustainability – Best Practice
How to reduce our carbon footprint – step by step.
My first visit to Kathmandu Guest House was in 1978 on the year that I achieved the historic ascent to Everest without supplemental oxygen along with Peter Habeler. It was only a small guest house back then. I am very impressed with the progress since then. Today the KGH Group has expanded to a renowned brand with 7 hotels and tour companies.
I cordially invite you to discover Nepal with the unique service and experience of the KGH Group.
– Reinhold Messner
Italian Mountaineer
(First to climb all 14 eight-thousanders)
For the past 50 years the KGH has opened up the doors to the world to a wonderful Nepalese culture with dignity, and the hotels are a symbol of warmest “Omotenashi” – hospitality. I am very honored that the KGH Hotels has become the home of my Himalayan challenges.
– Yuchiro Muira
Japanese Alpinist
(first man to ski down Everest in 1970 & the oldest to summit Everest at the age of 80 in 2013.)