Author: Hari Kumar Pradhan
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Diss. no.RD-00-3
Year: 2000
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (Ph.D.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2000
Examination Committee: Karl E. Weber (Chairperson); Jayant Kumar Routray, Ganesh P. Shivakoti, Shunji Murai(Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: The conceptualization of an ecotourism framework for sustainable development is based on a study of seven tourism centers and their surrounding settlements. Selected as sources of information were 100 people involved in tourism (PIT), 101 people not involved in tourism (PNIT), futiher distinguishing among them between natives and immigrants, and 169 visitors. Tools employed include cross tabulation, index constrnction, statistical tests, multivariate analysis and GIS mapping. Farming was the economic mainstay of by far most PNIT. Visitors went trekking, either individually (IT) or in groups (GT). As for visitors, variations were significant by type (GT or IT), gender and age in terms of access to Nepal and onward to the trekking area frequency of visits to Nepal countries visited prior to arriving in Nepal consumption of food, industrially produced beverages and bottled water accommodation while trekking dw·ation of stay in villages littering employment of labor force and use of informal sector services. There was no significant variation, indeed, in visitors’ budget allocations, with regard to their stay in Nepal. The incun-ing of expenditw·es, however, varied greatly in that IT spent their moneys along their trekking route, while GT availed of arrangements prepaid mostly in Kathmandu. As for the local actors, PIT and PNIT, variations were significant in spans of time doing agricultw·e and related activities, commercialization of agricultw·e, types of fuel used (dry vegetal residual matter, knee-timber, brushwood, timber), livestock rearing, and employment opp01iunities locally or outside. Research findings and analytical results collated in the SWOT analysis format identify as strengths the pristine mountain-area environment, the management performance by the Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP), the PIT entrepreneurship and the need, as recognized among the local population, for an alternative tourism promotion sh·ategy. Weaknesses are the subsistence nature of loca
Scholarship Donor(s): Government of Japan
Note: A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
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