Table 1.

Perceived and anticipated Economic and Social impacts of tourisms at Ghorepani as revealed by field visit’s observation and assessment, group discussion, personal interview, and questionnaire survey with the stakeholders and local residents.

		Economic	Social
Perceived Impacts	Benefits	The source of foreign exchange earning	Higher opportunity for health and security
		Improved economic status of the community	Improved living standard/Improved shopping
		Job/service creation Increased price of local products Increased wages for labourers	Opportunity for learning foreign language and culture Improved opportunity for infrastructure development.
			Improved opportunity for the trade of local products
	Costs	Job seasonality/unsustainable employment	Tolerable impact on traditional language, culture, and religion
		Inflation Increased cost for transportation Increased cost for repair and maintenance of appliances	Over exploitation of cultivable land for tourism activity Changes in the pattern of settlements, loss of traditional architecture Decreased community cohesiveness
Anticipated Impacts	Benefits	Further promotion of the place for both domestic and international tourists creates more job and service. Thus, tourism can be established as a key industry of this destination. This may ultimately enhance the economy of the country as a whole	Tourism promotion may resolve the unemployment problem of the province and the country as a whole
			May increase intercultural social interactions
			May introduce this destination across the globe
	Costs	Expansion of road may cause the loss of job/service of trekking related personnel.	Expansion of motorable road in the fragile destination may lead to natural calamities.
		Further expansion of tourism may attract big corporation which may replace the small-scale investment of local people. Thus, economy may be polarized.	Traditional entrepreneurs may lose their business, and thus their livelihood may be badly affected.
			High degree of dependency on tourism may further spoil the community cohesiveness leading to the polarization of society.