Tamang Heritage Trail:A Study of Gatlang Village in Rasuwa District of Nepal

Abstract

Tourism can be viewed as a space-time convergence between hosts and guests. The emergence of ethnic and cultural tourism implies that tourism also includes interaction and encounter between hosts and guests. Ethnic tourism provides opportunities to ethnic minorities to showcase their culture, customs and heritage. The unexplored soil of Tamang village was opened to bring them into the mainstream of development through pro- poor approach. When tourism is introduced culture is commoditised. Regarding this matter, the scholars are divided into two camps. Accordingly, one school of thought clearly advocates  that tourism brings cultural transformation whereas the other camp proposes that commoditisation will not affect on the culture of  host population. The economic and socio- cultural impacts of tourism is dealt along with the income generation and change in gender roles. In this study, Tamang Heritage Trail as an academic subject includes tourism and ethnicity, cultural heritage tourism, tangible and intangible heritage, niche-tourism, adventure  tourism ,cultural resource management and homestay. This study follows culture as multi-variate concept and tourism is composite discipline.

The Gaze: Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Vol.6 2014 pp.1-41