Visitors' impacts on remote destinations: An evaluation of a Nepalese mountainous village with intense tourism activity.

ABSTRACT: Tourism universally generates benefits and costs to the destination and community. Knowledge on the impacts of tourism on local communities provides important insight in formulating strategies for long term sustainable tourism. Therefore, there is a need to evaluate the impacts of tourism before establishing/expanding the industry at a particular destination. In this study, we assessed the economic, social, and environmental costs and benefits of tourism in a remote mountainous village that experiences the high pressure of tourism activity. Data were collected for the perceived and anticipated social, economic, and environmental costs/benefits of tourism via in person interview with local residents, hotel owners, and local governmental bodies through unstructured questionnaire survey. The

SUBMITTER: Baral R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9449556 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature