Day 3 - Presented to Sustainable Summits 2016 Lisa Choegyal: The Great Himalayan Trail & Janet Mackay: Kosciuszko National Park

1. Analysis: dispersing tourism
Protected Areas
Controlled Areas
Airports
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Foreign (non‐Indian)
visitors at entry points
Foreign (non‐Indian) visitors
at main tourist sites
The dominance of tourist flows to Kathmandu,
Pokhara, Chitwan and Lumbini is striking.
Mountain visitors prefer Annapurna & Sagarmatha
Relative distribution of foreign (non‐Indian) visitors in 2014

2. Mountaineering pressure on Everest region

3. Foreign visitors to protected areas Nepal
Mountain tourism patterns
Historically over 95% of all trekkers visit Annapurna Langtang and Everest
2014: 8% to other areas (178,000 to Annapurna, Langtang and Everest, 15,000 elsewhere)
Great Himalaya Trail Development Programme was the response Since 2006 marketing,
tourism infrastructure, SME product development & capacity building for poverty
reduction along a new subregional trekking and tourism product

4. Great Himalayan Trail coverage
Creating production, income & employment
opportunities for local communities
Tourism Hubs
Nepal’s ‘Tourism Triangle’

5. Kosciuszko

6. Kosciuszko NP
2 million visitors/year
4 ski resorts
$AUS9 million/year revenue
Mount Kosciuszko
• Easy access 7km
• 2000/day peak summer visitors

7. Growing numbers, changing trends
• Increase general visitors
• Generational change
• Decrease in back country skiers and
walkers
• Increase back country snow‐ boarders
• Growing reliance on non winter
tourism
• Looking at alternative activities
• Aim to grow advocacy amongst
different markets
17km mountain bike trail – 580/day
year 2

8. Commercial investment
• National parks budgets
diminishing
• changing markets
• Continuing to be relevant
• New diversity of sustainable
activities
• Revenue and commercial
opportunities in parks