Tourism and Economic Growth in Nepal

TOURISM AND RURAL SETTLEMENTS Nepal’s Annapurna Region

Functional and humanist perspectives relevant to counterurbanization studies are applied to examine the processes of growth and development of rural settlements affected by tourism. Based on a survey of tourism lodges located in several settlements in the Annapurna region of Nepal, this paper analyzes tourism-induced growth in such accommodations and its implications on changing characteristics...

Assessing Cost Effective Management Options of Eichhornia crassipes in Ecotourism Ramsar Sites, Nepal

Ecotourism is growing business in Nepal due to domestic and international visitors. Specifically, natural lakes in Ramsar sites are very potential avenues for boating, scenic beauty and study the aquatic ecosystem. However Eichhornia crassipes has been threatening the beauty, ecosystem and eco-tourism business. This research was objectively carried out to explore income generation from ecotouri...

Investigation of Nonlinear Effects of Health Tourism on Iran's Economic Growth: Self-regression approach with distributive intervals

Background: Since oil is not a sustainable source of income for oil-rich countries, economic planners have focused on non-oil sources of income. In this regard, the tourism industry is one of the most lucrative industries in the world.Tourism includes services that have a great impact on economic and social activities. Health tourism is one of the most important areas of the tourism industry. S...

Economic Growth, Tourism Receipts And Exchange Rate In MENA Zone: Using Panel Causality Technique

The Contribution of Tourism Development to Economic Growth in the Iranian Provinces

Abstract: The main objective of this paper is to estimate the tourism impact on the economic growth of Iranian provinces over the period of 2000-2010. For achieving this aim, the panel data approach has been used to the economic growth modeling. The empirical findings show that tourist receipts have a positive impact on the economic growth in Iranian provinces. It was found that a 10 per...