Impact of Pokhara Adventure Tourism on Nepal Economy

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Research topic Impact of Pokhara adventure tourism on Nepal economy
Key research question
How the Pokhara adventure tourism impacts on the Nepal’s economy?
Literature review
Adventure tourism has become popular trends in the emerging tourism industry (Miller,
2017). Tourism industry can be considered as the important contributor in Nepal’s economy. The
government of Nepal has shown huge contribution in the development of adventurous tourism.
In Parajuli and Paudel (2014), after the year 2011, different advertisement campaign, have been
introduced for promoting the Pokhara adventurous tourism to the global world. In the words of
Beirman et al., (2018), the growth in tourism sector depends on the national policies and
publicity of national heritage. In case of motivating the tourism behavior, network as well as
information accessibility has got increased in Nepal. In an investigation on ‘Nepal Tourism Year
2011’, it has been identified that in order to drag the attention of international tourist, particularly
in Pokhara, this year has made significant contribution (Fort, Adhikari & Rimal, 2018).
In this article, it has been mentioned that by contributing almost 40% of Nepal tourism
growth, Pokhara city has become the popular destination in adventure tourism sector (al Irsyad,
Nepal & Nepal, 2019). In the 20th century, changing travel trends of the global visitors, has
increased investment in this sector. In case of ensuring the popularity as well as growth
opportunity in this city, Nepal tourism and Civil aviation ministry have improved the
infrastructure of this area (Nepal, al Irsyad & Nepal, 2018).
As stated by Nepal, al Irsyad and Nepal (2018), Pokhara can be considered as the popular
strategic location, with ample numbers of tourism attractions. Large numbers of mountains,