Semester Project on How does tourism impact local Tharu community?: What are the challenges for local Tharu community to achieve sustainable goals?
Translated title
Semester Project on How does tourism impact local Tharu community?
Authors
Upreti, Sanketika ; Bui, Thi Huong Lan ; Panday, Kopila Pudasaini
Term
1. term
Education
Publication year
2018
Submitted on
2018-12-14
Pages
60
Abstract
This semester project examines how tourism affects the local Tharu community in Sauraha, Chitwan, Nepal, adjacent to Chitwan National Park. The park’s establishment in 1973 and UNESCO World Heritage designation in 1984 curtailed traditional subsistence practices such as hunting, gathering, and river fishing, prompting major livelihood changes. As tourism expanded, jobs in hotels, restaurants, and guiding emerged, and institutions like the Tharu Cultural Museum (2005) sought to preserve cultural heritage, alongside concerns about cultural change. Guided by the research question How does tourism impact the local Tharu community? and a sub-question on challenges to achieving sustainable goals, the study adopts a qualitative, inductive, multiple-case approach. Data are gathered through field observation, informal conversations with community members, and a literature and secondary-data review. The analysis is structured around socio-cultural, economic, environmental, and host–guest dimensions and informed by concepts of authenticity and commoditization, community-based tourism, stakeholder perspectives, and the Sustainable Development Goals. The excerpt covers study context and methods; specific empirical findings and recommendations appear later in the thesis and are not presented in the provided pages.
Dette semesterprojekt undersøger, hvordan turisme påvirker den lokale Tharu-befolkning i Sauraha, Chitwan i Nepal, der ligger ved Chitwan Nationalpark. Oprettelsen af nationalparken i 1973 og udpegningen som UNESCO-verdensarv i 1984 begrænsede traditionelle forsørgelsesformer som jagt, indsamling og fiskeri i floden og udløste store ændringer i levevilkårene. I takt med at turismen voksede, opstod job i hoteller, restauranter og som guider, og institutioner som Tharu Cultural Museum (2005) søgte at bevare kulturarven, sideløbende med bekymringer om kulturel forandring. Med udgangspunkt i forskningsspørgsmålet Hvordan påvirker turismen den lokale Tharu-befolkning? og et delspørgsmål om udfordringer for at nå bæredygtige mål anvender studiet en kvalitativ, induktiv, multiple-case-tilgang. Data indsamles gennem feltobservationer, uformelle samtaler med lokalsamfundets medlemmer samt litteratur- og sekundærdatagennemgang. Analysen er struktureret omkring socio-kulturelle, økonomiske, miljømæssige og vært–gæst-dimensioner og informeres af begreber som autenticitet og kommercialisering, community-baseret turisme, interessentperspektiver og FN’s verdensmål. Dette uddrag dækker kontekst og metode; specifikke empiriske resultater og anbefalinger fremgår senere i afhandlingen og er ikke præsenteret i de udleverede sider.
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