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| ashu |
Posted
on 11-Feb-02 05:45 AM
Emergency seems to have hit Pokhara's (mainstream) tourism hard.
Lakeside barely has tourists moving about.
With Spring cancellations piling up and few tourists here and there, hotels are struggling hard to stay afloat Many hotels have either fired or put (some of) their staff on indefinite leave.
Restaurants carry a desolate look -- empty, forlorn and desperate for customers.
We dined at Moondance -- a three-year-old Nepali-Canadian undertaking with a capacity for over 70 seats, and our party of four appeared to be the only customers that ENTIRE evening.
Shops -- cybercafes, book-pasals, record stores, gift shops, etc -- have few customers . The streets are quiet: like those in some ghost-town.
One more month like this, and many businesses will go belly-up, fears P. Timilsina, a friend who is involved in tourism-related work in Pokhara.
Still, some hoteliers and restauranteurs are putting on a brave face, hoping that the worst is already over. Many young teen-age to 20-something people are looking -- all the more -- to go abroad, saying that tourism-related "kaam chaina"
in Pokhara.
oohi
ashu
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| Distressed |
Posted
on 11-Feb-02 12:37 PM
Pokhara literally thrives on Tourism. There is not much there. Few indutries limited within the Industrial Estate, thats it.
Hope things turn around soon. How about promoting Internal Tourism. It took years for the Pokhreli's to realize that Indians were the bigger spenders than the Hippies who were selling their clothes to buy some ganja. I hope they realize internal tourism as important as the foreigners.
By the way how was Machapuchre? Was it still smiling when you left?
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| herda herdai |
Posted
on 11-Feb-02 05:08 PM
Slow down or stop tourism. That's another gift given by Maoists to the Nepalese people. I would like to ask Maobadis that how will you boost tourism under your rule?
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| OpinionLeader |
Posted
on 11-Feb-02 06:43 PM
Maoists will say, they need foreigners, neither tourists nor friends,
concerning the tourists from non-communist states. Because non-communists
peoples in the world are SIN on their eye. Since Dollar is American word,
communists hate dollars, and Indians ??? too.
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| OpinionLeader |
Posted
on 11-Feb-02 06:51 PM
Maoists will say, they don't want foreigners, neither tourists nor friends,
as long as we are talking about tourists from from non-communist states.
Because non-communists peoples in the world are SIN on their eye.
Since Dollar is American word, communists hate dollars, and Indians ??? too.
But, all communist state tourists will be given free or discounted
NA (now Royal Nepal Airline) tickets and free of charge Visa as
a proof of solidiarity with Communist states.
At the end, do you think Maoists will come to Power, and Nepal
will be an independent state? I don't think India will smile and let
Nepal be under Maoist control. There will be options for
India:
1. Make Nepal an Indian State, like west bengal.
2. Make Nepal like Bhutan, and let them do whatever the
Maoists like, but, skinned their foreign policy. Thats what
India is looking for long time in Nepal.
3. A puppet country, like Vietname tried in Cambodia.
A counter fight will start just within a few days against
Maoists like in Cambodia. And, all intellectuals, eduacated
peoples and professionals will either drain out of country
or be killed - in search and cordon, like the one going on
in villages.
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