Stakeholder Synergies for Enhancing Community-based Tourism Development

Abstract

The rise of community-based tourism has ushered in a new era of home-staying. The paper intends to demonstrate a viable model of synergistic efforts of local community-led tourism, as well as to analyze its functions in culturally significant historic sites. The necessary data were collected in the touristic environment of the historical Panauti area. Open-ended questionnaires with homestay owners and people's representative respondents were employed for the study. This essay focuses on socio-historical perspectives, settings and conditions of modernization, and the success of homestays through collaborative function. The descriptive model was employed for the analysis. Collective features of homestay are recognized as fostering factors for intimate relationship among local people, and local government is also thought to produce sustainable resource use, social relationships, cooperation, and empowerment.

Democracy in Nepal: The Status of Inclusive Representation

“…Although many "names" and "persons" have changed as a result of that experience, the governing structure has not changed. Every stakeholder in the society bears equal responsibility for balancing progress and quality of life (Gautam & Thapa, 2023). Democracy understood as a country's system of governance, is supposed to give to all its citizens the right to participate in deciding their present and future; it is hugely complex and its success depends on the availability of significant resources that are necessary to give cohesion to what naturally may drift in the conflicting directions of self-organization and fragmentation (German & Raul 2012).…”