The Importance Of Tourism In Nepal

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1. Introduction of Destination

Nepal is a small land-locked county with an area of 147,000 square kilometers, surrounded by the Tibetan region of China on the north and India on the rest, with a total population of 27.80 million in 2013 (World Development Indicators Data Base, January 2014), but is one of the growing tourism destinations in Asia. Nepal features diverse physiographic and ecological characteristics. Nepal’s diversity attracts tourists around the world. Its physical uniqueness offers a wide scope of activities that range from visiting jungle resort camp to trekking in snow-capped mountains. Tourism is important to Nepal as a source of foreign exchange and a major employment generator and source

Planners attempt to control via increasing infrastructure rather than limiting growth

Antagonism Open expression of irritation and planning is remedial, yet promotion is increased to offset the deteriorating reputation of the destination

Doxey (1975) and Mason (2003, p22)

It argued that the increase the number of tourists and tourism development, the greater the emergence of hostility from local residents. In a recent study (Allen, Long, Perdue and Kieselbach, 1988), it was argued that low-to-moderate tourism development would be perceived as beneficial to the local residents, but their perceptions turned negative quickly as the development increased. Another scholar, Fridgen (1991) also asserted that residents began to have negative stereotypes about tourism and its development in the defined stage of antagonism.

Doxey’s Irridex was mainly a conjecture since individuals’ perceptions and attitudes might change in all directions time to time. Consequently, the sequential Irritation Index should not be construed as being deterministic and