The history of Nepal tourism is short, in 1953 Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa summited the world’s highest mountains and later Nepal became one of the popular destinations for adventure and nature lovers. Nepal offers varieties of things to do from mountaineering to cultural tours. The tourism industry provides jobs to more than 4 hundred thousand people
The tourism industry is growing and Nepal has gained popularity with its beautiful landscapes and culturally enriched but sadly only a few numbers of businesses are benefitted from the industry, while the entire community related to tourism is left out and ignored. Explore Hub Nepal always makes sure to give back to the community, Explore Hub Nepal partners with Girls Empowered by Travel Nepal, an award-winning organization that enhanced the leadership skills of marginalized girls/women to bring young women into the mainstream of the tourism industry.
The partnership helps to promote the Sustainable Tourism Initiative in tourism potential destinations and helps bring more young and adult women into the tourism industry through homestay training and professional development workshops.
The tours and treks planned by Explore Hub Nepal will be eco-friendly and always make sure to give back to the community. We organize the food tours in local kitchens or restaurants owned by women, we organize the local women’s shopping tour, and thangka art classes led by women. We value cultures, norms, and local lives, and we provide immersive lifetime experiences without disturbing the cultural essence and its history. We always make sure to provide to lower our carbon footprints.
We aim to work towards the sustainability in tourism industry, especially in encouraging women’s empowerment through sustainable tourism initiatives. We have tour packages in various community homestays in Nepal which are mostly run and owned by women. For instance, Gre community homestay, which belongs to the Langtang region operated by women. This place holds ethnic Tamang heritage and its unique identity with Tibetan-influenced culture and tradition. Everything you get here is organic and locally produced.
Likewise, we also support different other communities such as the Tharu community, Newari community, Thakali community, and Kirati communities who are collaborating towards sustainability and eco-tourism in Nepal.
It directly contributes to SDG5: gender equality involving and bringing more into the mainstream of the tourism industry
SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth: 10% of every tour and workshop goes to enhance the leadership and entrepreneurship skills of women
SDG 11:Sustainable cities and communities
Our guests will be hosted by a community homestay acquainted with local people. The vehicles that are used will be electric for the transport
SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals
We will be partnering with different community homestay networks and women-led enterprises