An ever-changing place: interpreting landscape change in Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal; re-photographic survey and encounter

Garrard, Rodney; Köhler, Thomas; Wiesmann, Urs; Price, Martin F.; Byers, Alton C.; Sherpa, Ang Rita

doi:10.1553/eco.mont-4-2s49

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“…Construction of airstrip in Lukla, hospital in Lukla, Khumjung School, hydro-electricity project and facilities of communication (cell phone) etc. are important infrastructures which directly supported to the growth of tourism in Khumbu (Garrard et al, 2012;Garrard et al, 2016). Dig Cho GLOF in Dudhkosi River, ten years conflict from 1995-2005 in the country and destructive massive earthquake of April, 2015 are some of the events which resulted the decline in tourist visiting the area.…”

Section: Development Of Tourism In Everest Regionmentioning

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Tourism development and economic and socio-cultural consequences in Everest Region

Bahadur

2017

Geog. J. Nepal

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Being a mountainous country, Nepal is one of the destinations of tourist. Everest Region is one of the major destination trekking and mountaineering tourism and ranks second after Annapurna Region in term of number of tourists visiting different regions of Nepal. The number of tourist visiting this region increased from only 1406 in 1971/72 to 37124 in 2014. Such a growth of tourism has several socio-economic and cultural consequences. This paper discusses the consequences of tourism in Everest Region. Informations were collected along the trekking routes from Lukla to Dinboche through focus group discussion, key informant interview and tourism business survey. The results indicate that the number of hotels and lodges in many settlements along the trekking route has increased tremendously. The main base of economic life of Sherpa community has been changed from agro-pastoralism to tourism based business. The level of employment and income of local people has improved. However, tourism has undermined Sherpa culture by introducing new values and lifestyles influencing from westerners, eroded the central role of religion and traditional value in Sherpa community. For the younger generation the tourist and their norms of behavior and patterns of consumption can be seductive. This is the symptom of losing of cultural value of Sherpa community and world identity of Sherpa in the future.

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Section: Development Of Tourism In Everest Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism development and economic and socio-cultural consequences in Everest Region

Bahadur

2017

Geog. J. Nepal

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An ever-changing place: interpreting landscape change in Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal; re-photographic survey and encounter

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Tourism development and economic and socio-cultural consequences in Everest Region

Tourism development and economic and socio-cultural consequences in Everest Region

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