Nepal Trekking Agency License Check

Checks whether a Nepal trekking/travel agency is a current TAAN (Trekking Agencies' Association of Nepal) General Member, using TAAN's own public member directory (https://www.taan.org.np/members). Built for travelers, booking platforms and trek-planning tools that want a quick, structured signal before paying a deposit to an unfamiliar agency — trekking-agency registration scams are a known problem for visitors to Nepal, and no existing Apify actor covers this niche (checked 2026-09-28).

Prefer to look one agency up by hand? The same directory is free to search at https://nepaltrekcheck.com/agencies/, with a website check for each agency and a trek quote checker.

Input

• agencyName (string) — a single agency name to check, OR
• agencyNames (array of strings) — check several names in one run.
• maxMatches (integer, default 5) — how many directory matches to return per queried name; the closest match is enriched with full registry details.

Output (one dataset item per queried name)

• verified — true if a matching TAAN General Member was found.
• best — for a match: TAAN member ID, registered organization name, registration number, address, country, website, and the TAAN profile URL (no email or phone numbers, by design — use the TAAN profile to contact an agency).
• otherMatches — any additional name matches found, for disambiguation.
• note — plain-English caveat (see Limits below).
• source, checkedAt — provenance.

Honest limits

• Covers TAAN's General Members category only (~2,334 agencies) — not Associate or Regional Association members, and not the Department of Tourism's own trekking-license register (no public online copy of that register was found as of 2026-09-28).
• TAAN membership is a strong signal of a genuine, established agency, but membership and an active Dept. of Tourism trekking license are two different records — this tool checks the former only.
• Matching is on the organization name as TAAN lists it; spelling variants may not match.
• A "not found" result does not prove an agency is unlicensed — verify directly with TAAN or the Dept. of Tourism before relying on this for anything high-stakes.

Price

Pay-per-result on the Apify Store — priced inside Apify's normal per-event range for a lookup/ verification actor (see the store listing for the current price).

Data & compliance

Reads only TAAN's public member directory (robots.txt allows all crawlers as of 2026-09-28, checked before building this). No login, no personal-individual data — only organization-level registration details already published by TAAN for its member businesses. One search request plus (for the closest match) one detail-page request per queried name, spaced out — no bulk crawling of the full directory.