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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Tourism for Rural Poverty Alleviation Program (TRPAP)

The project is funded by
great international organizations such as UNDP, DFID, and SNV keeping major goal of
alleviating poverty in Nepal through sustainable tourism development policy. Project’s major
focus on basically disadvantageous and underprivileged men and women, lower castes, and
marginalized ethnic groups. The programme also emphasizes for maximum participation of
grassroots for decision making in policy making so that they can get maximum benefit. The
programme is always aiming to design such remarkable tourism model in various touristic
areas to promote sustainable development by enhancing local economy through promoting
various ecotourism activities such as tour guide, local products, home - stay, cottage industry
etc. the project has been successful in its objective in various tourism sites like Pokhara,
Chitwan National Park where local people are more active in their income generation.(
Bajracharaya, 2007)

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