International Tourism System: An Analysis of Pokhara, Nepal's Tourism

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the international tourism system, focusing on Pokhara, Nepal. It examines various aspects, including tourism activities and their impact on the host community, addressing security concerns and cultural perspectives. The report delves into policy implementation issues related to airline operators, specifically the challenges and impacts of government policies on the tourism sector. It further explores the positive and negative impacts of destination development, such as the hotel building spree and transportation development, evaluating their effects on the tourism industry. The report utilizes cited articles and news sources to support its findings, offering insights into the complexities and challenges of sustainable tourism development in Pokhara, Nepal.

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Table of Contents
Issues to host community...........................................................................................................2
Tourism activities causing security issues to the host community in Nepal..........................2
Issues to Host Community.........................................................................................................3
Impact of Tourism and its Culture to the host community of Nepal.....................................3
Tourism Policy Issue..................................................................................................................4
Policy Implementation issue concerned to the airline operators in the tourism department
of Pokhara, Nepal...................................................................................................................4
Positive and Negative Impact.....................................................................................................5
The destination development issue of New Hotel Building Spree in Pokhara, Nepal...........5
Positive and Negative Impact.....................................................................................................6
Destination Development Issue of Transportation Development in Pokhara, Nepal............6
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Issues to host community
Tourism activities causing security issues to the host community in Nepal
Chhetri, R.K., 2018. Tourism and Security in Nepal. Journal of Tourism &
Adventure, 1(1), pp.32-47.
The above-cited article clearly explains the conceptualisation of tourism as well as
security in the area of Nepal as well as focuses on the association that lies between the
synergy of tourism and the security aspects of the same. Chhetri (2018, p. 35), is of the
viewpoint that the concept of tourism is a vital component for leisure time, business, cultural
ideology, recreation as well as education. In this connection, the critical question focused on
the above-cited article is; whether any association lies between the tourism department and
security issues in the area of Nepal. Concerned to this question, the article rationally gets the
answers to the prime research questions of the dimension related to tourism and security in
Nepal. To get a precise response to the queries, the varied association associated with the
components of tourism sector as well as the tourism security sector connected to the specifics
of hospitality, events as well as security in the area of Nepal are taken into consideration. The
findings to the research study of the article were found to be as the alignment of the tourism
sector having an intermingled association with the security situation. It was also found that
there are several gaps as well as limitations that exist between the variables of the tourism
sector as well as the tourism security sector in consideration of the ideologies of setups, co-
ordination as well as execution of the same. In this context, the author of the article suggests
that the individuals concerned with the security department of the tourism sector in Nepal
should be roving and looking up for the rational, cognitive as well as the empirical
enhancement along with the development of the identified aspects of the tourism security
sector which are keenly stated during the process of the research.

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It can be stated that the above-mentioned article, has deliberately succeeded in
explaining the importance of maintaining security in the sector of the tourism department and
attracting several numbers of tourists as well as integrating the tourism department of
Pokhara, Nepal.
Issues to Host Community
Impact of Tourism and its Culture to the host community of Nepal
Nepal, S. & Baral, N., 2016. Cultural Perspective of Tourism in Nepal.
The above-cited article is mainly focused on the synergy of undermining and
investigating the perspective of the culture connected to the tourism in the area of Pokhara,
Nepal as well as its impact of culture on the sector of tourism industry of the same nation.
Moreover, the article also gives an insight into the conceivable opportunities as well as
threats that may occur in the tourism department through the responses that are gathered from
several numbers of respondents in the concern of cultural tourism. In the concern of
researching the desired topic, Nepal and Baral (2016, p. 12), have taken a web-based survey
into conduction among the diversified Nepali youths (mainly the students), who are
considered to belong to the different places with the help of the various e-commerce
networking sites. The article had taken both the qualitative as well as the quantitative
approaches in the concern of proving the thesis of the study. In the concern of attaining the
initial insights about the study regarding the culture and tourism the online material related to
the various cultural monuments as well as the places of the essential historical monuments
within the region of Nepal, especially the Pokhara Lake. This is considered to be the
quantitative research that was conducted in the upcoming phase of the research. For carrying
up the purpose of the study, the online questionnaires were created using the Google forms
and were sent via the platform of social networking to get the responses of the chosen sample
size.

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The article has significantly developed the questionnaires in the concern of
undertaking the online survey. Concerning the findings of the research, the outcome that
came into light was that culture in the tourism industry of Nepal had created challenges to the
same in the context of fulfilling the cultural aspects and demands of all the tourists visiting
from diversified culture to Nepal. Different people belong to a diversified form of cultural
background as well as living style. Thus, the tourism industry needs to study the complete
cultural aspects of the different tourists visiting their destination. In this context, several
tourists feel satisfied, and some stays disregarded to the cultural aspect.
Tourism Policy Issue
Policy Implementation issue concerned to the airline operators in the tourism
department of Pokhara, Nepal
Thehimalayantimes.com, 2019. It is the responsibility of the govt. to support airline
operators. Retrieved from https://thehimalayantimes.com/business/it-is-the-responsibility-
of-the-govt-to-support-airline-operators/
The above-cited news article has been published in the Himalayan Times dated 3rd
September 2019. The same was published in the concern of implementing the strategic
government policies in the connection of supporting the airline operators for the tourists
travelling to the region of Pokhara, Nepal (Thehimalayantimes.com, 2019, p. 1). The article
showed that the tourism minister has recently announced that the tourists who are above 70
years of age will be leveraged to a 50% discount on the airfare of the domestic airlines.
However, the terms and conditions concerned to the same were that the aged people would
get the benefit only after prior consultation with the stakeholders concerned to the airlines.
Moreover, the ministry had been recorded to raise the issue concerning the uniformity in the

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airfare connected to the local as well as the foreign passengers and implemented the policy
that the fare should be equal for both.
The article showed that the domestic airline department was not happy with this
decision and disregarded the same stating that the tourism minister declared this statement
without any prior discussion with the airlines' departments. Therefore, the airline department
claimed that it turns out to be difficult for them to implement the provisions made by the
minister at an uncertain point of time. However, it was also stated by the tourism department
that they do not stand against the provision announcement made by the tourism minister.
Instead, it was said that they are responsible for their elderly passengers and the airlines at
present is currently offering a 25 per cent discount on the airfare for the benefit of the senior
citizens. Thus, implementing 50 per cent is not a matter of big deal, but the same would need
time and also permission from several departments of the airline industry. Had the tourism
minister discussed the provision before announcing the same, it would have proved effective
for both the sides as determined by the help of the article.
Positive and Negative Impact
The destination development issue of New Hotel Building Spree in Pokhara,
Nepal
Thejakartapost.com, 2019. Nepal is in the midst of hotel building spree. But will the
tourists come? Retrieved from https://www.thejakartapost.com/travel/2019/09/03/nepal-is-
in-the-midst-of-hotel-building-spree-but-will-the-tourists-come.html
The above-cited article had been published in the newspaper article of The Jakarta
Post dated 3rd September 2019. Based on the article, it is undermined that the hotel industry
of Nepal is again on a building spree (Thejakarpost.com, 2019, p. 1). Previously in the fiscal
year of 2017, the tourism department of Nepal had been rated a five-star concerned to its

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accommodation of the hospitality sector. However, this new springe is on a doubt to work
because they are scared about tourist visiting the newly designed synergy of the hotel
industry. More than around 45 billion have been recorded to be invested in this new hotel
project, and despite the high rate of interests, the tourism developers are known to invest a
significant amount of money in this high-end hotels. Based on the article it was examined that
the positive impact of this new hotel springe is that it will bring changes and better standard
as well as effectiveness in the hotel sector of the tourism industry in the region of Pokhara,
Nepal. Moreover, the huge investment makes the structure of the hotel industry to be a high
standard and luxurious one for the tourists to enjoy living and nature.
However, the negative impact of the same is determined to stand at the place where
the tourists will not be attracted to visit the new hotel industry because of the high charges
they will not be able to afford. This, in turn, would create a loss to the tourism industry as
well as the banking sectors and other investors who are injecting in huge financial investment
in the structuring of the new hotel industry. Thus, with the help of the above-cited news
article, it is examined that there are both a positive as well as a negative side to the new
springe of the hotel industry in the area of Pokhara, Nepal. The entire positivity and
negativity are dependent on the success or failure of the new venture, respectively.
Positive and Negative Impact
Destination Development Issue of Transportation Development in Pokhara,
Nepal
Pokharel, R. and Acharya, S.R., 2015. Sustainable transport development in Nepal:
challenges, opportunities and strategies. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for
Transportation Studies, 11, pp.209-226.

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Based on the above-cited article, it is investigated that the region of Pokhara, Nepal
have been known to have several conflicts as well as political transitions issues in the
consideration of developing the synergy of transportation in the destination tourism. As
opined by Pokharel and Acharya (2015), the region of Nepal is going to embark with the
economic growth policy that would connect to the development of the transportation in the
tourism industry. However, it was also examined with the help of the article that Nepal had
not just faced the issues in the past efforts, but the same even are known to have current
challenges that it faces in the development of the transportation facilities. The study
examined that the policies implemented by the policymakers are not significant and sufficient
enough to move towards the sustainability in the transportation development.
Concerned to this lack in the strategic plan and processes of the policymakers, the
given report tends to suggest the effective theoretical concepts and lists out the important
strategies that would help and guide the transport development facility of Pokhara, Nepal to
get towards the synergy of the sustainable end. This, in turn, will help the policymakers to
create the policies that would prove recognizable for the concerned tourism department to
develop its key destination.

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References
Chhetri, R.K., 2018. Tourism and Security in Nepal. Journal of Tourism & Adventure, 1(1),
pp.32-47.
Nepal, S. & Baral, N., 2016. Cultural Perspective of Tourism in Nepal.
Pokharel, R. and Acharya, S.R., 2015. Sustainable transport development in Nepal:
challenges, opportunities and strategies. Journal of the Eastern Asia Society for
Transportation Studies, 11, pp.209-226.
Thehimalayantimes.com, 2019. It is the responsibility of the govt. to support airline
operators. Retrieved from https://thehimalayantimes.com/business/it-is-the-responsibility-of-
the-govt-to-support-airline-operators/
Thejakartapost.com, 2019. Nepal is in the midst of hotel building spree. But will the tourists
come? Retrieved from https://www.thejakartapost.com/travel/2019/09/03/nepal-is-in-the-
midst-of-hotel-building-spree-but-will-the-tourists-come.html