DELELOPMENT OF TOURISM IN NEPAL

DELELOPMENT OF TOURISM IN NEPAL

        HEAVEN LIES SOMEWHERE IN HIMALAYS THAT IS NEPAL. THE BEST SOLD BOOK 1935 THE LOST HORIZON GAVE THIS NEW VISION ABOUT NEPAL. NEPAL NEPAL NEPAL HERE  WAS THE PLACE THAT WAITING TO BE EXPLORED, MAPPED, AND MEASURED BUT THE COUNTRY WAS RESTRICTED POLITICALY TO MOVE FREELY FOR TOURISTS. ONLY IN 1941 NEPAL WAS OPENED FOR THE OUTSIDERS BUT IS WAS ONLY FOR THE EXPIDITION PURPOSE. NEPAL AND ITS HIMALAYAN WERE UNKNOWN TO THE WESTERN WORLD TILL THE 15^TH CENTURY. COL. KIRK PATRIC WAS THE FIRST TO ENTER IN NEPAL IN 1792 ACCOURDING TO THE WRITTEN RECORD. HE WAS SO INSPIRED BY THE HOSPITALITY OF NEPAL THAT HE WROTE  A BOOK “ AN ACCOUNT TO NEPAL” IS CONSIDERED AS  ONE OF THE BEST AND AUTHENTIC BOOK EVER WRITTEN IN NEPAL. IN 1843 MR. EVEREST A BRITISH SURVAYOR IN INDIA MEASURED THE HIGHEST PEACK OF THIS WORLD IN NEPAL. BY 1906 THE WESTERNERS MEASURED THAT 75 HIGHEST PEACK OF THE WORLD AND WAS SURPRISED THAT MUST OF THEM ARE CONCENTRATED IN NEPAL ONLY. WORLD GOT MORE ANXIOUS TO KNOW ABOUT MOUNTAINS, PEOPLE, CULTURES AND HIDDEN MYSTERIES. NEPAL’S NATURAL BEAUTIES AND MANAMADE ENVIRONMENT AS WELL AS UNIQUE HOSPITALITY INCREASED THE TOURISTS ARRIVALS EVERY YEAR. THAKALIES OF THAK KHOLA AND MANANGE OF MANANG HAVE CHANGED THEIR BUSINESS AND TRAVEL PATTERN. THE NEWARS OF KATHMANDU VALLEY HAD NEARLY LOST THEIR TRADITIONAL SKILLS AFTER CLOSING TIBET TRADE. THEY RE ADJUST THEIT TRADE WITH THE TOURISTS ARRIVALS. SHERPAS OF EVEREST REGION LEFT THEIR TRADITIONAL BUSINESS WITH TIBET AND DEVELOPED THEIR SKILLS AS HIGH ALTITUTE PORTER AND GUIDE. MORE THEN 75% OF THE TOURIST VISITED NEPAL FOR RECREATION AND ONLY 25% VISITED FOR ADVENTURE PURPOSE. CULTURAL TOURISM ARE VERY SENSETIVE ABOUT THE POLITICAL SITUATION OF THE COUNTRY. ALSO WE ARE ALSO NOT GIVING PROPER ATTENTION TO PRESERVE OUR HERITAGE SITES, MONUMENTS, CITY LAYOUT, RELIGIOUS SITES SO THE NUMBER OF COLTUTAL TOURISTS IS DECREASING DAY BY DAY. BUT  NEPAL HAS BIG POTENTIALITY OF PILGRAMMAGE TOURISM. THE NUMBER OF TOURISTS IS INCREASING DAY BY DAY WHO COME FOR RECREATIONAL PURPOSE.