3.2.1 Is Nepal a successful tourist Destination?
The tour operators that were interviewed for this research project have described Nepal as a country with full of breathtaking views and mountains, scenery, wildlife conservations places such as the national parks and the cultural and religious diversity and friendly people. But, In Denmark, Nepal is not perceived as having all of the things mentioned above. Many Danes perceive Nepal as a backpacking destination, hard core trekking destination and a Himalayan kingdom. The diversity of culture, mix of religions, wildlife conservation areas and beautiful national parks, friendly Nepali people are still unknown to many Danes in Denmark. Although Nepal possesses many assets, in the Danish market, it is largely unknown, which is an opportunity as Danish market for traveling to Nepal is underdeveloped and tourism to Nepal can be increased from Denmark.
On the accessibility dimension, there are problems as all of the tour operators have said that this has been a big problem for them. There aren’t many airlines flying directly to Kathmandu and there is none at present flying directly from Copenhagen to Kathmandu. Recently, major airlines such as Turkish airlines and Qatar airlines have started flying to Kathmandu, which has been positive news for tourism industry. Tour operators in Denmark have said numerous times during the interview that flight connections has been a major problem to sell travel packages to Nepal. Table 8: Hotel
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While many problems are associated with International tourism, it can still offer some advantages. For one thing, International tourism can open job opportunities for the native citizens. To demonstrate, when tourists visit an area, the vast majority of them don’t have a clue on
The tourism in Louisiana is huge. Tons of people come from all around for Mardi Gras in New Orleans. But New Orleans isn’t only the home for Mardi Gras. It is also the home of jazz clubs, streetcars, and restaurants serving Cajun-Creole fare. And another town big in tourism is Shreveport, Louisiana. Which is home to all types of casinos, parks, shopping, and golf. But just because Louisiana is big in tourism doesn’t mean that they don’t have a lot of people, because in New Orleans there is over 343,829 people in New Orleans alone. In the smallest town in Louisiana there are only 19 people. This small town where everybody knows everybody is Mound Village.
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More than 9,194,057 people within 2017 have visited Thailand for business or pleasure. Allowing for Thailand to be the ninth country in the world for most visited by tourist. What does culture mean to you? It is defined in FM 3-24.2 as, “the set of a system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts that members of a society use to cope with their world and one another (2009). The major characteristics of culture are established with history, language, geography, religion, communication, political science, military art and science, sociology, cultural anthropology, economics, education, art, music, entertainment, literature, food, drink, psychology, law, criminal justice, science, and technology. We will discuss the country of Thailand and cover the area, key infrastructure, weather, people, and civil consideration.
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The Travel and Tourism industry is still one of the largest single businesses in world commerce and its importance is widely recognized. The tourism industry is now one of the largest sectors earning foreign exchange. In the face of many benefits, many countries have started assigning due weight age to the tourism industry in their national development agenda. Tourism is an industry that operates on a massively broad scale: it embraces activities ranging from the smallest sea-side hotel; to air-lines, multi-national hotel chains and major international tour operators. Originally, non-traditional industries such as tourism emerged as a solution to strike a balance between ecology and industry
Currently, the earth has some profitable ways to earn more money and investing it to other infrastructures which are required the attention from governments. Tourism is one of the developing industries in the world. In addition, revenues which come from tourism most of countries utilizing it to develop of the medicine or building the skyscrapers. However, tourism itself can be divided into several types and one of the types that develops in fast pace, is ecotourism which amount of people increases by 30% annually(Mozgovaya, 2003). Ecotourism focused on strengthening and sustenance of natural system by tourism(Kiper,2013). It means that the main role
One aspect of tourism which has greatly been considered is eco-tourism. As climate change guilt among tourists grows, many tourist attractions are touting their environmental credentials in an effort to cash in on the "eco" tag. We define nature-based tourism as the segment of the tourism market in which people travel with the primary purpose of visiting a natural destination. If we were to draw an imaginary line through the tourism industry, with one side (the smaller side) representing sustainable tourism and the other side representing non-sustainable tourism, then nature-based tourism and cultural tourism, etc. would span the divide. We equate ecotourism with nature-based tourism that falls on the sustainable side of the line, where impact on the local environment and human communities is low, direct financial benefits accrue to conservation efforts and the local communities, there is respect for local cultures and needs, and the experience builds environmental awareness.