Effects of Earthquake on Tourism in Nepal

This study sheds light on the negative impact of earthquake on tourism industry of Nepal. It covers the research questions related to the impact of natural disaster on tourism industry of country, how earthquake affected tourism sector of Nepal and different ways through which Nepal can take some suggestive measures to redevelop the places of tourist attraction.

Effects of earthquake on tourism in Nepal

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 Title of the project.........................................................................................................................3
2 Terms of Reference.......................................................................................................................3
2.1 Purpose of the study...............................................................................................................3
2.2 Methods.................................................................................................................................3
2.3 Expected outcome..................................................................................................................3
3 Background and context...............................................................................................................4
3.1 Academic areas and general business context of the problem...............................................4
3.2 Business context of problem..................................................................................................4
3.3 Purpose of the proposed study...............................................................................................4
3.3.1 Research question...............................................................................................................4
3.3.2 Research aim.......................................................................................................................4
3.3.3 Subsidiary research questions.............................................................................................5
3.4 Significance of the proposed research...................................................................................5
4 literature review............................................................................................................................5
4.1 Introduction............................................................................................................................5
4.2 Impact of natural disaster on tourism industry of country.....................................................5
4.3 Effect of earthquake tourism sector of Nepal........................................................................6
4.4 Conclusion.............................................................................................................................6
5 methodology.................................................................................................................................6
5.1Introduction.............................................................................................................................6
5.2Research Philosophy...............................................................................................................7
5.3 Research design.....................................................................................................................7
5.4 Data collection, analysis and presentation of results.............................................................7
5.5 Sampling and ethics...............................................................................................................7
5.6 Conclusion.............................................................................................................................7
6. Project management.....................................................................................................................7
Anticipated problems and solutions.............................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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1 TITLE OF THE PROJECT
The research topic is “effect of earthquake of tourism in Nepal”. It will shed light on the
tourism industry of Nepal because during its critical phase several historical locations lost their
existence. It has direct impact on visitors as the incident create fear among them.
2 TERMS OF REFERENCE
2.1 Purpose of the study
The main purpose of the current study is to analyze the negative impact of earthquake on
tourism of Nepal. This is because recent incidents affected the tourism to a great extent.
However, tourism of country is the major source of income and great contributor of economic
development. It is the country of world's heritage sites which attract approximate 1 million
foreigners in each year but the earthquake devastated its beauty which take huge source of
finance to rebuild the same. Thus, the current research will assess the potential impact of natural
disaster on the overall tourism sector of Nepal.
2.2 Methods
The present research will be based on qualitative and quantitative aspect as collected data
will be analyzed by using thematic and descriptive analysis. The research will be done by
collecting primary data regarding the impact of natural disaster on tourism sector of country.
Information will be collected from tourists’ agencies, travel agents and through this it will be
possible to accomplish the aim of the study. This information will support in knowing how
earthquake has adversely affected Nepal tourism. Along with that, descriptive research design
will be for presenting the finding and reaching at the aim of the study.
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2.3 Expected outcome
It is expected from the present study that earthquake has direct impact on the natural
beauty of country. Also, it will derive the valid outcome that due to earthquake number of
visitors are decreased along with low employment in the nation. Conducting research on this
topic will help to assess the outcome that how the occurrence of natural disaster in the tourism
place makes impact on number of arrival of tourism, income generation of people and also on
economy of developing country, Nepal. On the other side it is also expected to examine the
outcome in terms of growth and development of Nepal and also the views of respondents
regarding the impact of natural disaster on tourism places.
3 BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT
3.1 Academic areas and general business context of the problem
The current research problem will cover the effective of natural disaster on developing
phase of country as Nepal. It assists tourism and travel industry to analyze the factors which
could hampers its performance and accordingly they can plan for growth and development.
Furthermore, research problem is also associated with other sector of nation like education and
academic background. Thus, natural disaster of Nepal affected the overall performance of
country to a great extent because it was already having low income base.
3.2 Business context of problem
The problem under investigation has significant impact on the business of country. There
is greater role of tourism in economy of Nepal, as it is one of the best tourism place in the world.
Impact of earthquake on Nepal has made greater impact on the business of tourism which
includes different sectors such as hotel industry, transportation and shopping as earthquake has
damaged most of the tourist places of Nepal. This will make huge impact on the business of
country and with the help of this research, researcher will reveal the impact of earthquake on
Nepal and on the basis of which key suggestions will be suggested that how Nepal can again
developed as one of the best tourism place in the world.
3.3 Purpose of the proposed study
The purpose of the proposed study it to shed light on present situation of tourism in
Nepal. It will provide overview about the negative impact of recent disaster on incoming of
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tourists and its direct impact on employment of country. Thus study will be cover following
research questions and accordingly it will achieve the aim of the same.
3.3.1 Research question
How the earthquake/ natural disaster affected tourism industry of Nepal?
3.3.2 Research aim
To investigate the impact of earthquake on tourism industry of Nepal.
3.3.3 Subsidiary research questions
The research questions for the current study will be formulated as follow which helps
researcher to gather necessary information and fulfill the research purpose. Thus, three research
questions are formulated to addresses the research problem effectively and develop alternative
solution in the same direction.
 What is the impact of natural disaster on tourism industry of country?
 How earthquake affected tourism sector of Nepal?
 What are the different ways through which Nepal can take some suggestive measures to
redevelop the places of tourist attraction?
3.4 Significance of the proposed research
The current study on effect of earthquake on tourism in Nepal will be helpful to uncover
different ways through which destroyed structure of tourism can be preserved. It will also help to
those who are conducting the study in the same field. Apart from this, present study facilitates to
bring improvement in the overall hospitality industry of Nepal. This will prove to be effective in
increasing tourists in the nation and generate employment in the same.
4 LITERATURE REVIEW
4.1 Introduction
The literature review is the important part of the study as it includes in-depth information
related to topic under investigation. In the present study secondary data will be collected in
accordance with formulated research objectives. It will help to understand the research issue or
problem in precise manner. Furthermore, themes are prepared according the research aim and
data are collected in the same direction. Apart from this, several studies will be referred to collect
the sector data so as to create strong base of the information regarding the research topic.
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4.2 Impact of natural disaster on tourism industry of country
The natural disaster affect the country's tourism sector to a great extent. It has direct
relevance with the attractive location and natural beauty of the same. Lu and Nepal (2009)
asserted that earthquake is directly associated with land which destroy the lucrative places of
nation in very less time. This negative aspect not only affect the tourism but also the other
businesses like aviation, hotel and clothing industry. Nyaupane, Morais and Dowler (2006)
explained that, natural disaster automatically reduced the arrival for a a particular nation due to
insecurity as well as uncertainty.
4.3 Effect of earthquake tourism sector of Nepal
The earthquake of Nepal left the tourism in loss or even at the ending phase. This is
because visitors affected badly and they cannot be attracted even at the high level of promotion.
Shiwaku and et.al., (2007)viewed that earthquake ruined attractive destinations like Kathmandu,
world's largest and holiest Tibetan Buddhist stupa along with other attractive sites. It now require
million of dollars to rebuild the structure of tourism and generate the trust among visitors.
Cooper and Schindler (2010) quoted that many of tour operator lost their businesses and are not
able to find employment. Such kind of critical situation affected overall economy of Nepal in
worst manner. Due to occurrence of disaster of earthquake in Nepal most of the tourists arriving
from international level cancelled their trip to Nepal. Further, it had adverse impact on the
historical places of the country. Moreover, Nepal as a country is developing at faster pace due to
flow of more funds from international level but due to earthquake flow of funds may be
adversely affected. In short level of income earned by government declined at faster pace. The
adverse impact can also be seen on employment opportunities where in country like Nepal
tourism provides large number of opportunities to local individual and presence of natural
disasters such as earthquake can lead to low employment opportunities.
4.4 Conclusion
According to the above collected data, it can be said that earthquake had major impact on
the tourism of country which leads to downturn economy. Similarly, the most beautiful creations
lost their existence and some of them got damaged very badly. Thus, it can be said that tourism
industry is the foremost sector of income generation for Nepal and the same left the country in
danger just because of natural disaster.
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5 METHODOLOGY
5.1Introduction
Research methodology is the important part of any study because it consists of range of
tools and techniques which will be used by researcher to collect and analyze the data. It consists
of research design, philosophy and data collection methods, similarly, tools for data analysis will
be explained in detail.
5.2Research Philosophy
In the current study interpretivism research philosophy will be used to understand the
social environment and accordingly gather the information (Corbetta, 2009). The reason behind
selection of this philosophy is to interact with multiple nature of reality and collect relevant
information.
5.3 Research design
The descriptive research design will be used for the present investigation so as to collect
wide range of data and to make an in-depth investigation of such. The use of descriptive research
design is to describing people who take part in the study.
5.4 Data collection, analysis and presentation of results
There are two types which will be collected in the present report. These are primary and
secondary. Here, primary data will be collected with the interaction of tourists. Similarly,
secondary data will be collected by accessing number of secondary sources like journals, books
and online material (Freshwater, 2008). Furthermore, thematic analysis will be used to analyze
both primary and secondary data. In addition to this, graphical representation of primary data
will be analyzed in context of themes. Apart from this, tabular form will also be used for the
presentation of collected of collected data.
5.5 Sampling and ethics
Sampling refers to individual unit of population. Here, simple random sampling is used to
select the 50 respondents. However, all tourists will serve as the population from which sample
will be selected. On the other hand, while collecting secondary information ethical aspect will be
maintained through accessing authenticate sources of information (Cooper and Schindler, 2010).
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5.6 Conclusion
The aforementioned procedure and methodology will be helpful in generating huge data.
It will assists researcher to reach at the aim and accordingly develop valid suggestions.
6. PROJECT MANAGEMENT
The following Gantt chart will be following while conducting the detail study
regarding the topic. It shows that overall study will be completed in 7 weeks.
Activity 1st Week 2nd Week 3rd
Week
4th
Week
5th Week 6th
Week
7th Week
Research Plan
Aim & Objectives
Background of research
Purpose and rationale
Research methodology
Review of Literature
Primary data collection
Secondary data
Data analysis
Final Modification
Conclusion
Final Submission
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Anticipated problems and solutions
The major problem of present investigation is that earthquake in Nepal put greater impact
on country's tourism business, however, it also impact the hotel industry. Hence, the issue has a
major impact on tourism industry of Nepal as earthquake has damaged most of the tourist places
of Nepal. The researcher will reveal the impact o is going to reveal the impact of earthquake on
Nepal and also approaches to provide suggestions to attract the tourist towards the Nepal and the
significant efforts of tourist industry to make Nepal as the most attracted tourism place in the
world.
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REFERENCES
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Cooper, D. and Schindler, P. S., 2010. Business Research Methods. 11th ed. London: McGraw-
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Corbetta, P., 2009. Social Research: Theory, Methods and Techniques. 4th ed. London: Sage
Publications
Freshwater, D., 2008. Reading mixed methods research: contexts for criticism. Journal of Mixed
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