Indigenous-ecotourism for Sustainability in Nepal

Indigenous people are regarded the first nationalities who have been contributing to cultivate the particular territories of the earth by the conventional and classic ideology. They have been innovating and constant guarding their own unique culture, tradition and values earned and adopted by the principle theory of ecological culture interactions and multiple experiences obtained from the daily life practices in centuries back. Land, Labor, and Loyalty are their common identities and inherent quality and they have been deserving the recognition as the existential legacy from the primitive era. And now two more (L) must be granted them to share the Love and Liberty that make them encouraged and empowered to be participated in sustainable development goal with all means. Indigenous communities in the destinations must be incorporated in both practical and theoretical education initiative. Make them trained, skilled and aware for self-sustained socio-economic development with better knowledge of upcoming challenges of climate issues, negative impacts of unethical business practices and degraded social and natural environment. After all they will be able to manage and conserve their natural and social environment handling entire issues in constructive ways. They will be better acknowledged to be more ethical, responsible and accountable to conserve the biodiversity and harmony among people and nature for holistic sustainable goal and prosperous future.

In the context of sustainable development goal tourism can be the most effective and multidimensional instruments to carry and implement the sustainable development initiative. Tourism can incorporate likeminded individual, group of people, communities, regions, countries and continents shearing experiences, ideas and opportunities to overcome the existing challenges of climate issues, maintain better social order and achieve common goal of future generation “The Peace and Prosperity”.

Our notion upon sustainable tourism development initiative; we can assimilate tourism as welfare ventures adapting multiple ways of services. We are aware upon importance of authenticity values in ethical business practices. We have acknowledged all those multiple impacts of tourism through years of practical experiences and academic reviews of numbers of case studies from the world. Our core the concern is the constant impression, influence and improvement in society regarding positive impacts besides the size of business volume and revenue accumulated. For Consistent responsible performance in the long run certainly requires the sustainable education plan under regular trainings, motivation and awareness initiatives. Regular observation and evaluation of positive impacts on nature and culture conservation with role of assigned entities with reward and warnings must be done. Evaluation of satisfaction degree can be exposed in locals through daily activities based on knowledge, skill and education provided them including opportunities offered.

There are 142 caste and ethnic group of people, 68 out of 142 are ethnic indigenous people identified in Nepal. Most of the ethnic indigenous people are marginalized from the mainstream policy and opportunities based on education, economic participation, employment opportunities and socio-political inclusion. Our main focus is to incorporate those underprivileged communities and societies through strategic plan projects to make them educated, skilled and trained to be self-sustained for socio-economic prosperity. At the same time we empower and encourage them to innovate, improve, protect and conserve the local culture, through education, agriculture, afforestation and ecological culture interaction while practicing sustainable socio-economic development. Therefore they will be constantly participated in sustainable goal from their own region cultivating their land, labor and loyalty with granted love and liberty through tourism system accumulated from the world.