Rasuwa significant decline in tourist visitation

RASUWA, Jan 31:As the cold increased, recent weather disturbances have led to in decreased tourist visits in the Himalayan district of Rasuwa. According to Shyam Kumar Sah, Senior Conservation Officer of Langtang National Park, the drop in visitor arrivals is attributed to exceptionally cold weather induced by snow in the district's higher elevations and the freezing of water in naturally occurring deep gorges, lakes, and wells.

Tourist arrivals usually decrease during the winter season and gradually increase after March 1, but this year, weather disturbances have made life difficult in the district since the Third week of January, according to Nissan Gajurel, President of the Rasuwa Hotel Entrepreneurs Association.

Chairman Gajurel stated that the extreme cold in the district has had a direct impact on the tourism sector. He clarified that the tourism industry has nearly come to a halt due to a lack of nature-loving hikers and pilgrims who want to visit the Gosainkunda and Langtang areas along the Tamang Heritage Trail, including Gatlang Parbatikunda and Thuman's Nakthali.

Tourists are drawn to the district's Uphill and downhill, valleys and plateaus, lakes and reservoirs, rare wildlife, local culture and lifestyle, dances and songs, waterfalls, protected woods, and flora, according to Sah, the park's Senior Conservation Officer.

Similarly, the number of religious pilgrims who fulfill their wishes by bathing in the holy pilgrimage site Gosainkunda, as well as tourists who visit the Bhange waterfall in Dandagaun, Uttargaya, is increasing, according to Ward Chairman of Uttargaya Rural Municipality Ward No. 2, Tuku Prasad Subedi.