Problem and Prospects of Tourism in Nepal

Abstract

Tourism is an important issue for the developing as well as developed nation. It has wide range of impact on the country on different aspects. Problems and Prospects of tourism are very remarkable and so it is very much discussed. This research report helps to identify the hidden Problems and Prospects as well as economic aspects of National Park which will help to increase the national revenue from this area. This study makes people know what Shivapuri-Nagarjun National Park really is and how it is contributing to the local economy like creating jobs, increasing local sales and what kind of problems existing there and what kind of prospects available etc. In this research work Information were obtained by interviewing with 3 categories of respondents – tourists, hotel owners and local respondents like restaurant, different shops etc. stratified Random Sampling was done to collect data from tourists, local people and hotel owners found around Shivapuri- Nagarjun National Park. Altogether 30 tourists, 35 locals and 17 hoteliers were requested to fill up the questionnaire and also the semi or unstructured interviews, observation as well as focus group discussion methods were applied. In sivapuri nagarjun national parks there are limited tourist attraction activities so the economic impacts are lesser than what it should be. Naturally Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park as a tourist destiny is full of attractions. The views of green, clean environment, lovely evergreen forest, different religious places, monasteries, temples, wetland etc are the main attractions of SNNP. In spite of having lots of encouraging factors, Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park is not being able to attract many tourists and needs promotion and development. The tourism activities have helped to the local people on job creation and on other activities little more. There exist differences between modern traveling and traveling in the early period. If we promote and develop the rural eco tourism properly we can preserve and earn foreign currency as well. This study had found that service oriented activities and agriculture is are the major occupation of the study of this area, the prospects of the tourism in this area can be acquired by proper infrastructure development activities related with tourism and also participatory approach for mass people participation on preserve nature and income generating activities.