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New Assignment Rakshya123
New Assignment Rakshya123
INTRODUCTION:
Hospitality Industry
These are the sectors that provide hospitality service to their guest. For ex:
(hotels, restaurants, resorts, bar, amusement park, homestays, etc).
Hospitality and tourism industry are inter-related to each other. In
context of Nepal there are various types of tourism activities. Tourism is
the largest industry in Nepal and is the largest source of foreign exchange
in Nepal.
HISTORY OF HOMESTAY:
HOMESTAY IN NEPAL:
Nepal is the land of various communities, which have rich culture
and tradition of their own. Many international tourists visiting the country want
to know more about these communities. To know more about these people and
their lifestyles, the best way is to stay together with the local. The concept of
homestay in Nepal has given an opportunity for tourists to stay with the local and
interact with them.
Sirubari of syangja district is consideres to be the first settlement to launch
homestay facilty for tourists. It was a typical gurung settlement, during the first
Nepal tourism campaign, “Visit Nepal year 1998”.
ETC:
CRITERIA OR RECRUITMENT FOR HOMESTAY:
Laundry:
Laundry facility is required for long-term guest. They might
need to get their clothes washed.
Basic amenities:
Basic amenities like: Soap, Brush, Toothpaste, Hot or cold
water etc. Basic needs should be provided to guests.
Preservation of culture:
Community-based Homestay inspires and make realize on
the significance of preserving culture and tradition, As guests
take a deep interest in local culture and tradition.
Promotion of culture:
As guests explore and learn a lot things about our cultures
while their time in the homestay. They will share it to their
friends and families which help to promote our places and
cultures.
Friendship:
While stay of guests he/she can communicate with locals and
make some new friends. Guests can have friendship and
memories.
Save money:
As homestays are community based simple homely
environment facilty, you get to save money because you’ll get
cheap pricing than in hotels and resorts.
Limited freedom:
As you are living in a home of a local you cannot get full
freedom. Guest needs to live under rules and regulations and
cannot disturb locals or the family he/she is living with.
Safety concerns:
You will not be able to get a quality safety because normally
you cannot find security guards or any safety cameras it’s all in
your own to be safe.
Internet facilities:
Homestays in Nepal are normally found in rural areas or bit far
from city. So, you may have problem of network or internet
facilities during your length of stay.
Poor Communication:
People generally like to inform their friends and relatives
about their locations specially when they visit new places. But in
most of homestays in rural areas in Nepal mobile signals or
internet service cannot be found.
Distant Market:
Many homestays in Nepal are far from cities and locals find
many problems to provide service to guests because many things
or amenities of guests cannot be fulfilled quickly because of
distant of market.
Misbehavior by the Guests:
According to homestay households, the behaviors of some
guests have created problems for the households at times. Some
guests arrive very late. They even do not order their food in time.
Due to this the host family has to stick up for the orders. Some
guests drink till midnight particularly in winters, make noise,
thereby, disturbing the nights of the neighboring households and
even behave rudely with the host families. The households have
also experienced some guests coming with sexual intentions. Due
to these experiences, the female members do not present
themselves while serving drinks to their guests.
Conclusion:
In this report we got to know about homestays in Nepal, Also got to
know about history along with criteria’s for homestay, advantages of
homestay , disadvantages of homestay, problems of homestay ,
importance and experiences in homestay and many more.
I think that homestays in Nepal can be more developed and be well
managed. Problems should be solved and government should give its
support to homestays and grow these kinds of tourism activities
throughout the country in well managed way. It should be well managed
that its contribution should only not be in community level, it has to grow
up so that it will give a lot contribution soon in national income and
nepalese economy too.