The Impact of an Earthquake on the Tourism Sector in Nepal

Abstract

In an economically underdeveloped country such as Nepal, tourism has a major impact on the ups and downs of the economy of the whole country. Tourism is the forcing factor that generates the opportunity for the employment and revenue generation for the government. How the slight influence on the tourism industry changes the whole country’s economy and creates chaos to its people.

The purpose of this Bachelor’s thesis is to shine a light onto the disastrous effect of a recent natural disaster on the tourism industry of Nepal in 2015 and find out the consequences of it. The possible remedies and recommendations are presented in this thesis.

The research is based solely on how the tourism industry was affected by the earthquake 2015 and how it handled the waves of those impact. It also covers the part on what the tourism sector and government of Nepal is doing to recuperate its previous state. It covers the section on what are the future plans and policies to overcome the darkness created by the disaster and shed the light over it.

This research also looks into a comparative study of before the earthquake and after the earthquake situation of the tourism industry of Nepal.