Abstract
This library based paper presents potentiality of agro-tourism in Nepal from rural development perspective. In doing so, focuses are given to fundamentals and management of agro-tourism as well as interface between agro-tourism and rural development. This paper argues that agro-tourism not only emphasizes on good health and environment protection but also creates economic opportunities to the poor farmers, unemployed youths and women. That is why Tourism Vision 2020, Tourism Policy 2007 and National Tourism Strategy Paper (2018-34) have given more focused on rural tourism in general and agro-tourism in particular. However, there are many challenges such as proper management of agro-tourism farms, road accessibility, better health care facilities and evidence based policies related to organic farming and agro-tourism marketing. Finally, this paper suggests performing different activities such as garden visit, harvesting and farm stay, farm restaurants, leisure fishing, highway landscape, agro-diversity conservation and marketing of local organic products for developing and promoting agro-tourism in more potential destinations.
Highlights
Nepal is known as an agricultural country with a country of the tourist destination in the world
Proper activeness of rural people within agro-tourism will certainly give the great chance of making the rural economy sound
The trend of use of local seeds, saplings, manure by local rural people with bit modernity will let the development of agro-tourism in the name of tourists’ attractions towards farmlands
Summary
Nepal is known as an agricultural country with a country of the tourist destination in the world It is a unique place for agro-tourism because of its natural beauty, varied climates and agricultural diversity. Most of the alternative tourism approaches including agro-tourism are closely related with rural economy and thereby rural development. Rural tourism enterprises do not necessarily occur on a farm or ranch, or at an agricultural plant, they do not generate supplemental income for the agricultural enterprise. It covers the wider arena, which includes features of various subsectors of alternative tourism such as heritage tourism, wildlife tourism, and indigenous community tourism including agro-tourism
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