Community-based mountain tourism in Pakistan09.09.2016The Mountain Area Support Organization (MASO) organized a session for the youth of Gojal, Pakistan on the topic “Role of community-based tourism in socio-economic development”. The session was held at MASO’s office hall in Gulmit Gojal. Educated youth, especially girls, from various villages in the Gojal Hunza Valley attended. Didar Ali, a graduate in tourism management and founder of Mountains & People, was the keynote speaker. He discussed the idea of community-based tourism in great detail and encouraged the youth to play their part in socio-economic development through small ventures. He further discussed how the influx of domestic tourism is contributing to the social economy, which is turning into a source of livelihoods for many households. Ali continued to discuss the downside of the tourism influx in the region, which has been damaging to the area’s fragile mountain eco-systems. It has also created excess garbage from items domestic tourists bring and leave behind irresponsibly. This has been of great concern for the local communities of high mountain areas where there is not a proper system in place to manage the waste. The local administration seems absent in addressing the growing concern of the local communities regarding pollution and garbage dumps. |
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