Visit Nepal 2018
Nepal being a country of amazing natural beauty and cultural heritages has a huge potential for tourism business. Despite the challenging physical landscapes and diversification, Nepal is growing gradually in the field of tourism business. Nepal recently did “Nepal Tourism Year 2011” as a destiny of thousands of tourists from different countries in the world. Though Nepal was unsuccessful to achieve the target of one million tourists from all over the world, it had a lot of positive and negative impacts in the economy of the nation.
Nepal is preparing itself for the “Visit Nepal 2018” and proper planning is necessary to achieve what is targeted from the event. Proper management of infrastructures of tourism, well developed structures of the country and management of tourists’ security are some of the steps that should be taken by the government for the success of the Visit Nepal 2018.
Possibilities of Tourism in Nepal
As Nepal is rich in natural attractiveness and religious as well as cultural dissimilarity, tourism can be flourished well here. Thousands of tourists from different nation visit Nepal every year due to its acceptance of one of the best travel destinations in the world in the present time. Nepal does not only hold the natural beauty and diversification, it also holds potential for various adventurous sports and activities such as paragliding, rock climbing, mountaineering, etc. which gives extra benefit for the country to attract more number of tourists in the country. Religious and cultural places, unique and antique stuffs and various cultural combinations can attract travelers and researchers to come and visit the country.
Challenges for Tourism
Even though Nepal has great prospective of development of tourism, it has to face some serious problems and challenges to achieve the goal of the event in 2018.
- Due to the natural landscapes of Nepal, developmental works such as highways, electricity and many other are not done
properly in every areas of the country. This can bring decrement in the number of tourists. - Untimely strikes and blockades can cause a serious problem in operating tourism business as well other structures of
tourism. - Natural disasters for instance earthquake, landslides, floods, etc are the natural causes to challenge tourism business in
Nepal. - Political instability and economic fluctuation can hamper in the tourism as it creates barrier for it to operate it in a proper
way. - Tourists will to stay safe while travelling and lack of security of tourists can cause a huge problem in the flow of tourists in
Nepal.
Steps to face the Challenges
Despite of the challenges, we can work together to face those problems and overcome them to achieve the target of the Visit Nepal 2018.
- Developmental works must be done despite the fact that Nepal has difficult land structures. Rather than stopping in the
position, Nepal government must start continuing developmental works using new and advanced technology and reach
each
and every nooks and corners of the country with highways, electricity, communication and many more. - Reason to slow down the tourism business such as blockades, strikes and other demonstrational activities must be
minimized by the government for the smooth operation of tourism in the country. - Tourists are often hampered by the natural calamities too. So, safe zones must be created for the tourists who will allow
them to travel without the fear of being in danger. - Political situation lie this should be discuss and make it stable which will only encourage the government to invest more
and make tourism sustainable business. - Theft and many more serious cases can make tourists feel uneasy to travel in Nepal. So, these conditions must be stopped
and make a very hospitable environment so that all the tourists from all over the world can travel and enjoy their time in
Nepal. - Good hotels with lots of facilities must be maintained not only in the city areas also in the rural areas with lots of
attractions for the tourists.
Steps for a Successful Tourism Year 2018
As Nepal is celebrating World Tourism Year 2018 as Visit Nepal Year, A lot of things are to be done for the achievement of goals targeted for the event. Government solely cannot make it possible and hence each and every force of the nation is to united to make it happen and make the year a historic year for the economic as well as social and cultural point of view.
- Government must first plan very optimistically and very strongly for the goals and objectives of the Tourism Year and
organize it to various departments for the operation of the event throughout the year. - Every nook and corner of the nation must be reached with facilities and amenities to ensure the long stay of tourists as
much as possible. - The Tourism year and its main attractions must be promoted all over the world to make travellers excited to come and
explore the natural beauties of our country. Maximum number of population in the world should be spread with the
information of the Visit Nepal 2018 to encourage them to come and visit us once. - Government as well as local people are responsible for creating a charming environment with less pollution, harmony
with the guests and show traditional hospitality to all the tourists to make them feel important and stay a bit more. - Different NGO’s and INGO’s and travel and tours organizations can contribute making people aware of the importance of
tourism in people and ensure the even operates without any obstacle. - Financial institutions such as banks must provide loans to people to operate business which will add more support to
government to maximize the possibilities of success in the event.
Conclusion and Recommendation
In the present world, Tourism has grown as one of the main source of economic development in the world and Nepal being rich in natural as well as cultural heritages follows the Tourism business as one of the main source of income for the nation. As we have almost everything necessary to be a tourism country, it can be flourished here very quickly and very strongly. Visit Year 2018 is one more chance for Nepal to prove itself a country with great potential of tourism all over the world after the unsuccessful year in 2011. It is the chance for the country to promote everything here to the whole world with a pride. If it happens and Nepal succeeds in bringing a large number of visitors from entire world, it contributes a huge support in the economic development of the nation as a lot of people will have a chance to earn currencies through various employment opportunities. Local markets as well and hotel business will be flourished which will help people to rise up the living standard of them contributing the advancement in whole economic condition of the nation.
To cut the matter short, for the successful year of Visit Nepal 2018, Nepal government as well as every concern parties needs to work from their own places to make it happen.
I actually prepared this report of Visit Nepal 2018 for the assignment of my college which I submitted in Help University.
The photos were taken by me during my trips to Mardi Base Camp and Annapurna Circuit.