Tourism Activities in Nepal (A Case Study of Taplejung Municipality,Taplejung District)

Abstract

Tourism is lately initiated and fastest growing industry in the world. It is found that the word tourism is derived in 19th century . In ancient time visitors and travelers used to come from India and China for pilgrimage in Nepal. In 1956 Nepal government established a board named Nepal tourism board to enhance the tourism activities in Nepal. From this time the door was open for foreigners in our country. Now Nepal is one of the major destination places for international visitors For many countries tourism industry is one of the important sectors to the world. Some of the countries have been successful to run speedily economically by generating this industry. Nepal has high potentiality of tourism industry but Nepal has not been successful to touch the height of development of tourism yet. It is said that tourism is such industry in which one can earn sixty rupees from investing only one rupee. Foreigners who come to Nepal spend $25 per head per day. In the same case, in Bhutan the spend $200 per head per day. It means that Nepal extremely need to focus in qualitative approach not only quantitative approach. Taplejung Municipality has strong potentiality for the development of tourism. It is a spot of sightseeing, natural beauty, sunrise, sunset, religious place etc. For the desire of promotion of tourism in this area the study is important work in comparison to other previous studies. From the study it is found that the tourism activities are more in India side and the more benefit are taken by Indians and due to the less tourism activity and infrastructure Nepalese local people are not able to take more benefit from tourism industry. In Taplejung Municipality area infrastructure like permanent road, drinking water supply, electricity, tourism welfare programs are very essential for tourism development. Likewise awareness programs, local culture conservation and government policy is also necessary. So this study digs out that it is necessary to give attentions by all stakeholders for the development of tourism in this area.