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Rural Tourism in Nepal
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Travel Articles >> Locations >> Asia >> Nepal
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Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world. It suffers from corruption; its economy is in a sad state; human rights are violated here. Tourism plays a significant role in the country. Nepal is rather popular with professional travelers and bag packers. The country attracts tourists by its ancient history and fantastic beauty of nature. Besides, rafting is extremely popular in Nepal.

A special category of tourism has recently appeared in Nepal – rural or village tourism. It offers tourists the possibility to acquaint with, probably, the most precious wealth of the country: its culture, customs and traditions. As a rule, tourists in Nepal stay in resorts, built especially for this purpose, as well as in hand-made tents. Rural tourism allows them to acquaint with life and culture of local citizens.

Most citizens of Nepal live in villages, and tourists have the opportunity to stay in one of them. Thus, tourists can not only observe the village life from the outside, but also take an active part in it. Tourists do not change the local citizens’ way of life. It remains the same. Tourists eat everyday food of simple people and have the opportunity to take a part in rural life.

There is one more advantage of this type of tourism as compared to traditional tourism. The money spent by the tourists goes directly to local citizens. If the rural tourism goes on developing, it shall be able to play an important role in development of the country and lower the level of poverty. Local administration provides significant support to this type of tourism.

Council of Tourism plans to implement programs on planting forests, as well as on conservation in order to facilitate development of the tourism industry. However, it should be mentioned that specialists consider rural tourism to be rather dangerous: it may destroy culture and way of life of the ingenuous population.
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