Tourism is a very familiar affair in human life. It has been an industry of vast dimensions and
ultimately supports economic growth and social development. In order to promote tourism in
Nepal, the ninth five year plan has made a 20 year long strategic programme. The main objective
of this programme is to develop Nepalese tourism up to the desirable standard. As far as the 20
years long-term tourism policy is concerned, our government has decided to increase the arrival
of tourists in average 12, 47,830 every year. And expected income of foreign currency to be
1663.6 million dollar every year. And the average staying of the tourists extended up to 15 days
(Nepal Tourism Board, 2000). The Ninth five-year plan says the government is serious about the
uplifting of Nepalese tourism, which needs great care and protection. "For the constant
development of the Nepalese tourism, it has been commonly decided to give equal priority to
some other factors, which do also affect the tourism sector directly. Such as development and
expansion of tourism sites, necessary infrastructure for tourism, promotion of tourism market,
improvement in civil aviation, protection of environment and involvement of private sector in the
promotion of Nepalese tourism, etc" (The People’s Review 2001). Hence long term vision is to
promote village tourism for poverty alleviation including ecotourism and domestic tourism.
Recent development on tourism is highly concentrated on development of trained human
resources which is based on quality of services provided to tourists. But many areas of the
country are still deprived of basic tourism facilities.