Tourism In Nepal Case Study

Tourists share the responsibility for unsustainable destinations

This essay examines the tourist’s responsibility in Nepal. Nepal is known as a suitable place to promote tourism for trekking as well as culture based activities and the aim of this essay is to review and understand not only how unsustainable Nepal has become as a destination but to review the tourists point of view from that destination.

Tourism can be defined in many ways, for economist people tourists are the main source of earning foreign currency, for private sector it is an act of the developing product, for other tourists receiving community it is an angle of change of lifestyle and for travellers it is a set of activities that motivate the individual to leave home temporarily

In this case Nepal and the environments resources, have shaped themselves into two geographic zones. One of these zones being the mountain regions and the other being the middle hills and terailplain. Tourists are usually close to the mountain destinations and thus the government pays close attention to the environment for the Development of tourism within this

ACAP which means Annapurna conservation area project is located in the Western Himalayas they have specified that “littering, especially plastic water bottles, and pollution of water causes much of the poor sanitation and other factors leading to environmental degradation of this area which starts to affect the tourist numbers in ACAP. A number of visitors took part in a survey which reported that the litter and sanitation conditions in home and villages along the mountain trek are unsatisfactory and that the pressure is even higher because of the seasonal concentration”. (Nyaupane, 2006) Environmental impacts did exist prior to the arrival of tourists, but the scale of degradation has been provoked by the growth of tourism today. The Himalaya is quoted as the “The, world’s highest junkyard” by Sir Edmund Hillary, who is the first successful Himalaya