Tourism infrastructures in Pokhara

To cater the service of tourists, there are 1 domestic airport, 1 tourist bus parks, 16 tourist buses, 1900 taxis, 573 hotels (two 5-star, five 3-star, fifteen 2-star), 21 tourist restaurants, 116 travel agencies, 81 trekking agencies, 124 tourist restaurant and bars, 11 dance bar and night clubs, and 18 paragliding companies. Additionally, there are a number of trekking equipments and garments shops, green parks and gardens, and transport service (which manages bus, taxi, luxury car), trekking equipments and garments shops, boat club, book stalls, money changers and others, etc. in the tourism industry of Pokhara at present (Adhikari 2011; Upadhayaya and Khatiwada 2012). There is a total of 375 km of paved road network in and around Pokhara. Such infrastructures are supportive to offer the specialized services of all incoming tourists in Pokhara.

This growing trend of varied tourism related entrepreneurs has been making a broad, composite and a multifaceted industry. The continuous growth of tourists has also induced sustainability challenges of tourism in Pokhara. Such challenge ranges from cultural influences to the exploitation of natural resource, from the problems of wastage deposition to traffic noise, and from the lack of social security to socio-cultural degradation, etc (Upadhayaya and Kahtiwada 2012).