Residents’ perception, attitude, and support towards the tourism industry are the key determinants of tourism success. Therefore, understanding residents’ perceptions is critically important for the long-term sustainability of the tourism industry. However, such studies are meagre in the context of Nepalese tourism, one of the most popular nature and culture-based tourism destinations in the global tourism arena. In this study, we assessed the residents’ perception towards tourism impact, and their attitude and subsequent action towards future tourism development in three popular destinations: Pokhara, Ghandruk, and Ghorepani of Gandaki province, Nepal. Data were collected on a Likert scale ranging from 1 to 7 via a questionnaire survey with 600 randomly selected local residents. The result revealed that irrespective of differences in demographic variables, all the residents showed a high level of agreement that the benefits of tourism outweigh the prevalent costs. The result also revealed that both residents’ attitude and support were significantly influenced by socio-economic impacts and thus most residents despite having few anticipated concerns showed prevalent positive attitude and strong support for tourism promotion. However, residents not directly benefited from tourism and the residents of farther distance from the core touristic regions showed reluctancy for the further promotion of tourism. Thus, it suggests that diverse group of people have no equitable access to the resources and benefits of tourism. Therefore, to maintain the long-term sustainability of tourism industry in this region, the stakeholders are required to involve diverse group of local residents not only in devising effective strategies for mitigating anticipated concerns and assuring equitable benefits to the diverse group of people but also in formulating tourism policy and in the process of tourism development. Had this approach been successful, it would be instrumental in devising sustainable tourism plans and policies for similar other destinations across the entire country.

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居民视角下的尼泊尔旅游业：对尼泊尔甘达基省旅游业发展的影响感知、态度和行动的评估

居民对旅游业的看法、态度和支持是旅游业成功的关键决定因素。因此，了解居民的感受对于旅游业的长期可持续发展至关重要。然而，在尼泊尔旅游业的背景下，此类研究却很少，而尼泊尔旅游业是全球旅游领域最受欢迎的自然和文化旅游目的地之一。在这项研究中，我们评估了尼泊尔甘达基省博卡拉、甘德鲁克和戈雷帕尼这三个热门目的地的居民对旅游影响的看法，以及他们对未来旅游发展的态度和后续行动。通过对 600 名随机选择的当地居民进行问卷调查，收集了 1 至 7 级李克特量表的数据。结果显示，尽管人口变量存在差异，但所有居民都高度同意旅游业的收益大于普遍成本。结果还显示，居民的态度和支持都受到社会经济影响的显着影响，因此大多数居民尽管没有什么预期的担忧，但对旅游推广表现出普遍的积极态度和强烈支持。但居民并没有直接从旅游中受益，距离核心旅游区较远的居民对旅游的进一步推广表现出不愿意。因此，它表明不同的人群无法公平地获得旅游业的资源和利益。因此，为了维持该地区旅游业的长期可持续性，利益相关者不仅需要让不同的当地居民群体参与制定有效的策略来减轻预期的担忧并确保不同群体的公平利益，而且还需要制定旅游政策和旅游发展过程。如果这种方法取得成功，将有助于为全国类似的其他目的地制定可持续旅游计划和政策。