Acknowledgements

 I have been provided with lots of supports and suggestions by many people in the process of completing this project work. First and foremost, I would like to express my gratitude and gratefulness to Professor Dr. Pradeep Kumar Khadka as my supervisor for his outstanding guidance and time to time encouragement to carry out this work successfully. Without his inspiration and intellectual stimulation, this work would have never been completed. As a Head of Department, I would again like to thank him for kindness in providing me with an opportunity and encouragement to conduct this study. I would also like to extend my sincere thanks to all respected teachers and staffs at the Department. Special thanks goes to Dr. Rudra Prasad Upadhyay, Associate Professor, CEDECON for his valuable suggestions to carryout this work. My sincere acknowledgement also goes to all the staffs of TU Central Library, IUCN Library, and NTB who helped me to get relevant materials for this dissertation. I should not forget to extend gratitude to the respondents (visitors, hoteliers and locals) whom I met in different spots around Chobhar premises, who had given their
precious time to fill up the questionnaire and for their views and suggestions regarding tourism development in Chobhar. I would further like to pour my gratitude to all my friends, especially Mr. Shree Kumar Maharjan and Birijan Maharjan, for their full support and guidance while performing this piece of work. Last but not the least, I am grateful to my parents Dhan Raj Karki and Maha Laxmi Karki, my uncle and aunt: Navaraj Karki and Laxmi Karki and my brothers and sisters for their full encouragement and support in order to make this dissertation work come fruitful. They are those people who has continuously been stimulating me towards the path of my academic pursuit and providing me constant financial and moral support to complete my Master’s Degree to the best of their capacity.

Sudeep Karki
August, 2006