Homestay Tourism Promoting Local Entrepreneurship in Nepal: A Case Study of Sirubari Village, Syangja

Abstract

Abstract: The main purpose of the study is to explore the Homestay Tourism Promoting Local Entrepreneurship in Nepal with references to Sirubari Village, Syangja. To meet the desired objective the study constituted three fundamental objectives as to study the tourists' inflow trend during the study period of current five years, role of homestay business at promoting local entrepreneurship in the village and satisfactory level of homestay operators because of tourism business in the village. To accomplish the objectives, the study has incorporated descriptive and analytical research design using both qualitative and quantitative data from primary and secondary data sources determining samples from the population. Study selected samples using random sampling among the homestay operators and convenient sampling among the non -homestay operators. For the primary data collection the study used both structured questionnaires and open interview with the respondents. For the data analysis the study has used SPSS. With the analysis the study concluded that the trend of domestic tourists' arrival was increasing whereas the trend of foreign tourists was fluctuated until 2019/2020 AD. However, because of global pandemic COVID-2019 the trend of domestic tourists' arrival appeared to be miserable and the arrival of foreign tourists reached at nil. Similarly, homestay tourism in Sirubari found to be milestone to the local people as the homestay operators increased to twenty three from seventeen during this current five years and key factors of the entrepreneurship are empowered. In addition to these the study found that the most of the key factors of satisfactory level of homestay operators are highly appreciated. Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Inbound tourism, Nepal, Outbound tourism,