Rural Tourism in Nepal

Abstract

Tourism is the world's fastest growing industry. Nepal is one of the most beautiful countries in the world with lofty snowcapped mountains and scenic, peaceful settings. It has varieties of tourism resources, places of natural beauty, historical and cultural monuments, art, architecture, and festival set which are the best attractions to the foreign visitors in Nepal. Among various tourists are attractions in Nepal. Tanahusuris one of the most scenic tourist destinations in Nepal. It is a land of natural scenery, the rich biodiversity, peaceful environment, and the ethnic diversity, the rich and diverse culture which attract visitors. The study was conducted to examine the role of Tanahusur Homestay for the promotion of rural tourism along with problems of tourism in TanahusurVDC.The universe of the study has been sampled from the Tanahusur VDC and Tourism Area in there of Tanahu district. The local people, hotel owner, domestic visitors and foreign tourist, government service holder etc. were the sample respondents and the sample size is 40 for the study.The study is based both on secondary and primary data collection from DDC and VDC profile, reports and direct fill up the structure questionnaire in TanahusurVDC. The researcher own-self participated to collect primary data by using data collection techniques and tools like structure and semi structure questionnaire, key informants interview and so on.Findings of the study revealed that there is high potentiality of tourism in Tanahusurbecause it has numerous sightseeing spots, tourism interest places such as the lake, the peak, the cultural activities, agriculture farming attraction. The number of foreign tourist is found very low according to the local people. Local people were found very much interested and devoted for promoting tourism in the study area but there seems lack of co-ordination among the government authorities and local promoters and also lack of fund.

In conclusion it can be said that Tanahusur VDC deserves potentiality of becoming one of the best rural tourism destinations of the country and Tanuhusur Homestay was very effective to promote rural tourism. Therefore, package programs and tourism advertisement seem necessary to develop Tanahusuras a rural tourist destination.