Nepal is one of less developed countries (LDC), official statistics in 1996 estimated more than 40 percent of the population living in poverty, based on poverty line of US$ 1 a day earning per person. Ten years later, this figure has dropped down to 31 percent. If this trend continues, Nepal can achieve another 20 percent in poverty reduction by the year 2015 without difficulty, meeting the Millennium Development Goals of reducing poverty by half.
Tourism export is strong element of Nepalese economy and a key player in foreign exchange earner. Significance of tourism in national economy has been well established, but it has not yet received equal treatment to merchandise export. Merchandise export receives various incentives from the
Government; tourism is not considered export on the government policy. Poverty is wide spread and more dense average 50% in remote mountainside compared to 4% in
Kathmandu the capital of Nepal. In Nepal more about 90 percent population live in small villages and this is where the poverty wide spread. These remote mountainsides are the places where tourists go for trekking, rafting and mountaineering. Therefore, Nepal is implementing village level strategies on tourism export. This has the potential to
reduce poverty in these parts, bring speedy economic growth and social transformation. Nepal is trying to implementing right tourism export strategy to bring rapid economic growth in villages where the poverty is wide spread, thus reducing overall poverty level.
