Analyzing Sustainable Tourism Practices in the Mount Everest Region

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of sustainable tourism in the Mount Everest region. It explores the historical context of tourism development, emphasizing the shift from early expeditions to mass tourism. The report delves into the economic impact of tourism, highlighting its role in local economies and infrastructure development, while also addressing the environmental and social challenges, such as forest degradation and cultural changes. It examines the role of the Nepal government in ensuring sustainable tourism, including measures to address health concerns like low oxygen and freezing temperatures, as well as supporting local communities through job creation and infrastructure development. The report also discusses the importance of political ecology in addressing issues of social justice, ethics, and environmental changes, and it suggests strategies for improving tourism sustainability, such as extending the tourism season and offering attractive incentives to visitors. The overall aim is to provide insights into how tourism can be managed to balance economic growth with environmental and social responsibility in the unique context of Mount Everest.

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Introduction
Most probably in 1950, the international tourism has been started in the Mount Everest
region. After the fruitful summit in 1953 of the Mount Everest, the people from all over the
world became attentive to the mountain tourism, especially for the Mount e Everest. People
especially the tourists were not only attracted to the scenic beauty of the Mount Everest but
also attracted to the people who dwell in the valleys. People from all over the world became
interested from that time as some of the people love to watch the natural beauty and some of
them love to climb on the hill. Mountain tourism expanded at the beginning of 1970 rapidly,
and this tourism business becomes the leading factor of the specific place’s economy. From
the 1990s, Everest tourism took place in the heart of a large people massively and turned into
the mass tourism. Though in many villages around the Mount Everest are still now depended
on animal husbandry and traditional agriculture, but the local economy more recently has
depended upon the tourism and tourism-related arrangements (Brown, 2013).
The tourism management takes the responsibility of portering, climbing, Lodge management
and climbing. These factors are important for the local communities as they can be recruited
in this sector. Nowadays, it is a crucial task to ensure the Everest tourism in that region that
raises the culturally sensitive, environmentally sustainable and social development. The
development is needed for native geography that can attract the people from all over the
world. Tourism helps to become a strong vehicle for the Sherpa who helps the tourists for
climbing, and it also helps in economic growth of the country. The tourism intervention has
been acknowledged already as there in increasing development in the economic growth and
infrastructure. It has a huge impact on the local economy, and it provides development of
hospitals, schools, hydropower plant and airstrips. Besides the opportunities, it creates many
problems like landscape and cultural changes, environmental changes such as forest
degradation and solid wastes, etc (Cook, 2009). It is also significant for the socio-ecological

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variations through a compound interplay that effects on the livelihood practices and the
lifestyles of the local people. On the other hand, Mount Everest is world famous tourist place
which attracts thousands of people across the globe. So, it is the responsibility of the Nepal
Government to protect the Mount Everest tourism which controlled by few citizen. Besides
that, the base camp for Mount Everest trekking is only considered as a tourist place which
includes a small tourism sector that needed to be protected by the government. Moreover, the
government needs to take technical support for the sustainability of Mount Everest tourism.
Along with that, technical factors is one of the vital tools which can be used as an alternative
of manpower (Gerson and Gerson, 2014).
To ensure the sustainability of tourism in the first base camp of the Mount Everest, the
tourism has to go through the various levels. There are different factors to discuss those levels
seriously to know about the whole matter thoroughly. Political ecology has raised some
important and difficult questions about social justice, politics and ethics which are related to
environmental changes and human activities. Though the tourism management takes
seriously the political questions, political ecology rejects the assumptions related to the
human welfare and environmental changes. Ecological degradation is common evil that
affects poor and rich the both. It explores some changes that are connected to the concrete
economic and political relationships (Miller, 2015). There are various ways that can be used
to challenge or reinforce those relationships. The sustainability of tourism depends on the
activities of government. In other words, different types of governmental rules and
regulations are continuously influencing and effecting the development of tourism.
According to this case scenario, the government of Nepal had been taken different types of
initiatives to preserve the scenic beauty and attractiveness of Mount Everest as a world
famous tourist spot. According to many studies, most of the tourists visited Mount Everest
had been suffered by breathing problem due to low oxygen level. The government of Nepal

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should take necessary steps by providing appropriate oxygen supply to the base camps of the
Mount Everest which is the most crowded tourist spot (Sharma, 2006). Temperature is the
another issue which causes death for sometimes. The government of Nepal should provide
heating equipment to the tourists to protect those sick people who are suffering from freezing
temperature. Additional manpower should be needed for those tourists who are unable to
reach the height of the Everest. For those helpless people, the authority should give the
permission of using some cattle like horse or donkey or dogs and reindeer. With the political
support of the government, the sick people can get help from that kind of unknown place. So,
the government should help those people effectively.
The government should arrange an efficient medical team who can look after the health
condition of the individual tourists through proper diagnosis. The government of Nepal
should arrange the medical team on the base camps where some emergency may happen.
There are some social and cultural factors that help in ensuring the sustainable tourism
around the Mount Everest. The people of those area and other villages should be sympathetic
to the tourist who come from all over the wold. The local community has to help the visitors
by guiding in such an adventurous place(Richins and Hull, 2007). The local people are
habituated to the hilly region and the different sides of the mountain and valley region. So,
the local people should be helpful and sympathetic towards the visitors who are merely the
new comer of that spot. There are another vital factor for the tourists in the hilly region of the
Mount Everest. Food is a vital factor to the tourists. Without food, the visitors cannot
accommodate at that place. Though in such a hilly region, the folding arrangement is not so
good. But, the local people helps to supply the food to this basecamp and in the hilly region.
So, without the help of the local community, the tourism cannot be sustained properly (Sung
Chon, 2014). The common people helps to provide food even on the serious height of the
mountain, and by their help, the tourist can enjoy their trip to such a hilly region. The

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government also help the local people to collect or import some medicines from the different
countries. Those medicines help the visitors in their critical needs. If there is any diabetic
patient on the basecamp of the Mount Everest, the doctors can provide the proper treatment
by providing insulin at the right time.
To promote sustainable tourism on the first basecamp of the Mount Everest, some activities
should be done seriously to make the tourism fruitful. Several activities can be carried out in
order to extend the time session of tourism related activities, to ensure the variations of some
mountain supportable tourism offers, to enhance the opportunities of the local people and to
uplift the profitability of the government(Rogers and Aitchison, 2006). The authority also has
to support the accessibility of the tourists to the mountain destinations and to support the
local people to earn the profit from tourist sector around the Everest. If the governmental
authority of Nepal can increase the time limit of the visiting sessions that can be helpful the
government. If the time session is increased, the visitors can come to the spot in that extra
period also. Even when the weather is not appropriate for the mountain climbing, that time
can also be suggested for only visiting the scenic beauty from the safe place. This kind of
aspects helps the government to increase their earnings from the tourism on that specific
place. Increased time session means extra income and that is the most necessary thing to the
government as the tourism is one of the most fruitful businesses for the Nepal government.
The governmental authority has to propose some attractive offers which help to grab the
attention of the people who prefers mountaineering. The profitable offers for the sustainable
tourism business was also helpful in earning of the foreign currency and makes the mountain
tourism profitable. The providing offers help both the authority and the visitors. The offers
are provided for the welfare of the visitors also. It helps the tourists by many facilities given
to them, so both the tourists and government became helpful for the each other. If the
government of Nepal can increase the job opportunities for the local community, the whole

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nation of Nepal will be helpful for these opportunities. The tourists can receive the help from
the local people as they are familiar with their locality. So, they can help effectively the
tourists, and on the other hand, the local community receives benefits from them(Sharma,
Manandhar and Khadka, 2010).
The government also has to provide the accessibility of the tourists by giving permissions to
the tourist and has to provide safety in the country. The Nepal government representatives
who act as a national ambassador of Nepal needs to an application for Visa to visit the Mount
Everest. This visa needs to be shown to the army who are protecting the base camp. Visa
helps the tourists to access into the Nepal border when they need to visit the Mount Everest.
Passport and visa help the tourist to visit the mountain easily. So, the Nepal government has
to play a vital role in providing visa that means the authority has provided the permission to
the visitors with keeping the security of the country(Sharma, Manandhar and Khadka, 2010).
The authority should study some brilliant tourism strategies for developing tourism
sustainability. Different strategies help to improve the techniques that help for the
development of the mountain tourism. Be that as it may, the demand of Mount Everest
basecamp tourism will be increased. Along with that, the government should play a
protective role by saving human lives at that deadly minus temperature to impress the world
population. In other words, the Nepal government only can sustain this Mount Everest
tourism by showing their capabilities and technical developments. Besides that, with the help
of more tourists, the Nepal Tourism Department will be benefited by huge turnover at the end
of a year. In addition, the economic system of the Nepal can be improved and effected by
Mount Everest tourism if the Nepal government plays a role of saviour.

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Conclusion
This essay is based on sustainable tourism of Mount Everest. There are various types of
aspects of sustainable of Mount Everest tourism were discussed in this essay with proper
arguments and justification. Moreover, how tourism of Mount Everest can be sustained by
Nepal government that also be evaluated by concrete evidence and justification. Moreover,
the Nepal Government needs to take some essential steps to sustain the tourism of Mount
Everest by applying the suggestion which is discussed in this essay(Richins and Hull, 2007).

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