Shree Kumar Maharjan, Ph.D. International Cooperation Studies

Shree Kumar Maharjan Many places have their own identity with their natural, cultural and historical values. Kirtipur town is one of such settlement within the valley and indeed the close ones from the main Kathmandu city, but still remained isolated and unexplored and far from the reach of tourism activities. Spreading 14 hectares of land, Kirtipur is located 7 km apart from the center of Kathmandu. Kirtipur is known as "a glorious town" in nepali dialects. It is an ancient town, having remarkable historical values and ethics, which can be called a living, open museum of religion, cultures, traditions and glorious work of Newari arts, crafts and architecture. With majority of Newari community, the city houses about 43.000 people in 10101 households approximately according to the data of year 2005. The town is famous due to its important moments in Nepalese history. In addition to its historic importance, it is also important from the artistic and beautiful scenic point of vi...

Shree Kumar Maharjan M. Sc. Ag Conservation Ecology There was exploration of tourism industry in Nepal since ancient time. Though, having long history, maximum number of tourists flow was seen in 1999 only i. e. almost 5,00,000, which was effect of visits Nepal year 1998. Then tourists’ flows go in decreasing trend up to now with slight fluctuation occurs in some years. In Nepalese context, there are lots of potential tourism products and destinations in each and every place, we can not explore it in full extent to drag huge amount of foreign currency. The major causes behind decreasing and unstable tourism industry are improper marketing strategies, not identifying new products and their promotion, political instability, traditional thoughts of tourism industry (means ignoring internal tourists), and negative publicity in national and international arena. Tourism is a hospitable industry, where guests’ satisfactions are most important. There is saying in Nepali “ATITHI DEVO BHAWA”. ...

Shree Kumar Maharjan M. Sc. in Conservation Ecology Published on 23 January 2007, in “The Rising Nepal” (National Daily Newspaper) Nepal is a multiethnic, multi-cultural, multi-religious and multi-lingual nation. It is inhabited by diverse 100 ethnic communities with 92 languages and 9 religions form Terai to Mountain areas and from east to west. Most of these ethnic communities are poor and below poverty line especially focused in the rural settings of the country. That’s why; most of them are depended on wild foods, natural resources, forest products, to fulfill their daily needs. Recently, most of the development projects and programs are focused in those rural areas to uplift the living standards of the ethnic poor in various names like rural tourism, community based tourism, community development etc. Government with technical and financial assistance of donor communities has been designing and implementing pro poor tourism programmes not only to cater the visitors but also for co...

Sirubari village is a totally Gurung village in Syanja district. It is a short drive and walk from Pokhara, one of the tourist hubs in Nepal. The community welcomed and invited to stay in their homes as a home-stay in the village families. The visitors can enjoy with gurung culture and living styles. The accommodation is simple but comfortable with good bedding and clean toilet facilities. The food is delicious and visitors can enjoy as a family member at the time of eating. Each night there will be entertainment provided by the community with cultural songs and dances and obviously you can join the dance if you like. This trip was new experience for me. We, Shashis, Govi, Sandhya, Mira, Sujata and me, went their in the Friday eve and we stayed in Seti Dovan at that night with Mira’s family. The conversation between her Grandma was quite interesting to me. I was in mystification while she talked about his health and old age. Govinda’s gossips with Syanjali gals were also pretty funny d...

Humla is one of the remote northwestern districts of of Nepal, which is situated in the Karnali Zone of Mid Western Developmental Region. It is representing high hill with its headquarter at Simikot, a mountainous semi urban town with an elevation of 2910 metres in the Himalayas of western Nepal. The District lies in 30o N latitude and in between 81o and 82o longitude It covers an area of 5,655 km² and has a population of 40,595 (2001 Census). It is one of the most isolated regions of Nepal, which can be reached only by foot or on the small planes that land irregularly in the district due to lack of accessibility । Syada VDC of the Humla district is the project site for Community Based Biodiveristy Management Project, Which is comprised mainly of Chhetri communities. i had a chance to visit this remote visit on this october with couples of foreigners (Anette and Olav) and nepali frens (Radha, Bijay, Indra and Chandra). We moved to Nepalgunj on 26th of Asoj from Kathmandu after celebr...