Sky Is The Limit

Saudamini Chalise

The sky is the limit for tourism-related attributes in Nepal but its infinite possibilities haven't been realized so far keeping that hair's breaths wispy balance between the consumption of tourism products and preservation of its natural pulchritudinous.

 Being an enclosed country, tourism itself is the backbone of Nepal's economic ensembles and a global platform for marketing its natural USB in the international context. Tourist’s footfalls generate revenues, the backbone of the Nepalese economy, and a quintessential for circulating the cash flow through the nerves of our economic contour. 

Nepal has lots of offers on its platter, meandering through the wilderness and exploring the unchartered territory sparks up the docile adrenaline in the tourist. Nepal has come a long way traversing thus far in the realm of tourism from a sleeping village to a thriving economy propelled by tourism-related endeavours. 

Unplanned hiccups such as Covid sabotaged its movements in the past two years and is still been an Achilles hill to some extent. Mother Nature has been immensely generous to us showering her natural beauty, and priceless and pristine landscapes. Nepal is an exotic bijou on earth positioned on the lap of the majestic Himalayan range embroiled with the mystic veil of an enigma. 

Heaven For Nemophilists

The unchartered territories within the boundaries of Nepal have always remained the heaven for nemophilists throughout the globe. With the rare and priceless wealth of natural beauty, Nepal has to harness it gingerly to expand the life expectancy of the rare natural wealth. 

Countries such as Nepal are often walking over eggshells, maintaining the equilibrium of natural pristineness and consumerism at the same moment. Sensing the pulse of the consumers' outlook, current market trends and the intricate internal problems are the most important points kept on the checklist of the host country. 

Nepal is merchandising sui generis, its only USB to snatch its coveted spot in cut throat business of tourism. Ethnic diversity, ethnic groups, cultural diversity, unique cultural beliefs and customs, traditions, the flare of people and the unity in diversity are the prominent features of Nepalese cultural motifs. Nepal proudly boasts the possessions 8 highest mountains out of 10 mountains in the world. Nepal has a plethora of tourism-based activities that run parallel throughout the country.

 From rock climbing, mountain expeditions, adventure treks, paragliding, skiing, peak climbing, boating, fishing, bungee jumping, white water rafting, hot air ballooning, and mountain biking, the list can go on and on. 

Nepal caters to the tailor-made needs of the globetrotters and the theme-based tourism activities such as pilgrim tourism, cultural tourism, village tourism, mountain tourism, city tourism, ethnic tourism, nature tourism, sports tourism, and agriculture tourism, hospitality tourism, etc. also add flavour to the tourism platter. 

A total of 190,739 international visitors came to Nepal in the five months of 2022. Nepal has to look into the scope of increasing the room for more tourists by air and be able to provide full service with standard amenities balancing that fragile equilibrium of gulping up tourism products. 

According to the survey of the central bureau of statistics, the tourism industry in Nepal provides around 371,140 jobs in Nepal. The tourism industry is the fourth pillar of our economic fabric measures should be implemented methodically to let nature turn its course and rejuvenate its lustre. 

The government, stakeholders and the local inhabitants should keep their eyes peeled out to maintain the environmental and ecological aspects of the pristine natural locations. The fundamental theory of 'mass tourism' does not marry well with the concept of harnessing the fragile ecology of the pristine locations throughout the country. 

Nature Is Refuge

The grey areas that Nepal had to rendezvous after the COVID-19 made us cough through the entire two years. But, it taught us to be more resilient toward uncertain adversaries and a nouveau trend of wanting to lose among the pristine wilderness and exotic locations made us more cautious to lengthen the life expectancy of such delicate regions. 

After all, nature is our only refuge in the end when all the ersatz in life tend to look phoney and feel artificial humans worldwide are much alike, deep within the dissimilarities that we carry around all our lives only to realise them as we grow closer to the end of our life. By saving nature, we save the human species in general as both are part and parcel of each other's existence.

 (An author by profession, Chalise holds a PhD in travel and tourism)