Mountain tourism in North Pakistan: tourist regions and problems of further development

It is a great challenge to examine mountain tourism in Pakistan in the light of European experiences. However, as far as I know, there are no empirical studies in this field so that, first, basic data and information have to be collected. Mountain tourism seems to be such a recent phenomenon in Pakistan that social scientists are not yet aware of it, although tourism has increased rapidly during the last decade in the mountains of North Pakistan and there is a large potential for its further growth. This potential should be carefully developed, above all to diversify the sources of income for the mountain population. This paper discusses some of the salient features of mountain tourism in North Pakistan.