Problems and Prospects of Tourism in Dolakha District

Abstract

A thesis entitled "Problems and Prospects of Tourism in Dolakha District: A Case Study of Bhimsensthan VDC". The objective of the study is to identify the problems and prospects of tourism in Bhimsensthan VDC of Dolakha district. This study is limited in Bhimsenthan VDC in Dolakha district. This study is mainly concerned with the existing and important tourist spots, tourism trend, prospects and problems of tourism in study area. This study has applied explanatory and descriptive research design. The data is qualitative as well as quantitative in nature. Out of 75 respondents including national and international tourists from different countries was taken 45 respondents by using random sampling. My study concluded that Bhimsensthan area have huge potentiality of rural tourism. This area is easily accessible as because its just one and half hour away from headquarter Bhimsensthan . Tourist can get the Green community forest can be another reason for visiting this place where tourist can find small religious spot with interesting myth behind that place, where organization of old people with their own fund and effort have been making water tap so that passerby can enjoy the cool drinking water. One hour of hiking can take the tourist to top most part of the village from where tourist can enjoy the scenic beauty, like watching different mountain ranges from Bhimsensthan to beautiful Bhimsensthan valley can be seen, and other beautiful landscape can be enjoyed. There are different challenges which stand as hindrances in the pace of tourism development in this area. One of the major problems of this area is that this area have road track. Lack of total participation for the tourism development is another problem of this area, some organization lacks co-ordination for conducting different tourism development activities. Another challenges is migration of villager toward headquarter, Kathmandu, even in UK as most of the household have at-least one member engaged in army service. Lack of young manpower involvement is another major problem, as most of the young manpower area involved in abroad job, some are in headquarter and Kathmandu for educational purposes and for job. This place is not properly advertised in media, and also it lacks link with the NTB in order to get proper support from state sector.