![]() Global Himalayan Expedition wins tourism award16.05.2017Global Himalayan Expedition (GHE), a Mountain Partnership member from India, won the Start-Up Innovation Award for the category of “impact tourism” at the fifth World Tourism Forum Lucerne in Lucerne, Switzerland on 4-5 May 2017. GHE earned this prize for their business model of leveraging tourism and technology to provide clean energy, digital education, livelihoods creation and wireless connectivity to remote mountain communities of the Indian Himalayas. A social impact initiative that combines development initiatives with adventure tourism as a means of creating positive social impacts, GHE focuses on reaching out to marginalized mountain communities to promote sustainable and inclusive progress. Grounded in the notion that energy can enable income generation and change lives, their overall aim is to foster self-sufficiency and sustainable development in the Himalayan region by setting up solar micro-grids, providing electricity to previously off-grid communities.
“Impact tourism is being hailed as the next big thing in the world of transformational tourism. We feel that this award is a recognition of the fact that remote mountain communities hold a big tourism potential, and, if combined with impact tourism, not only will the communities benefit, but also travellers will have the experience of a life time,” said Paras Loomba, GHE founder. “We would like to actively promote impact tourism in other mountain communities around the world by forming a partnership with other Mountain Partnership members. Our model of implementing solar micro-grids, homestays and impacting communities can be replicated around the world.” Read more Photo: World Tourism Forum Lucerne |
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