Abstract
The earth has been witnessing unprecedented and disastrous phenomenon for the last few decades. To add the misery, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world in a standstill with almost no cross boundary travel. The tourism industry, which usually depends on the people’s travel ability was severely affected by the pandemic resulting to the loss of economy worth of million dollars and million jobs. Nepal, a geographically diverse country is a least developed country whose economy primarily depends on remittance. Further, Agriculture, Service and Tourism are regarded as top industries of the country. Nepal being home to eight out of ten highest peaks of the world with altitude above 8000 metres above sea level, is often regarded as a paradise to mountain tourists. In this line, Tourism in Nepal has high potentials, however still lacks capital to transform those potentials into realities. With little fertile land and lack of infrastructure in the mountains (land above 300 metres asl), the major source of economy is tourism. The livelihood of the communities is directly or indirectly dependent on tourism which were severely affected by the COVID 19. However, the community resilience of the mountain tourism workforce helped them encounter less impacts than anticipated. The paper assesses the community resilience of the mountain people with cases from Everest and Annapurna region using the theory of resilience.
Presenters
Sitaram DahalDigital Marketing Officer, Public Relations and Publicity Department, Nepal TourismBoard, Bagmati, Nepal
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2023 Special Focus—Post-Pandemic Tourism Transformations
KEYWORDS
Moutain Tourism, Resilience, Community Resilience
