Kathmandu, Aug. 29
The
Sustainable Tourism Livelihood Restoration Project (STLRP) operated in
collaboration with the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) and the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP) has received the Pacific Asia Travel Association
(PATA) Gold Award for the third time.
In
a programme organised by the PATA in Thailand on Wednesday, PATA President
Peter Semone handed over the award to the Project Manager of STLRP Dharma
Dawadi, NTB informed in a statement on Thursday.
The
project has been awarded the PATA Gold Award for 2024 in the Community-Based
Tourism category. "The project has received this award because it has
created tourism employment opportunities and increased capacity in sustainable
tourism development by building tourist destinations in various locations in
collaboration with seven provinces, 58 districts and 85 town/village municipalities
of Nepal," read the statement.
The
STLRP project had previously received the PATA Gold Award in 2022 and 2023.
It
received the PATA Gold Award in 2023 for its initiatives in women empowerment
through tourism, sustainability and social responsibility and was conferred the
PATA Gold Award in 2022 under Tourism Destination Resilience category.
Shraddha
Shrestha, manager of the NTB and national program coordinator, informed that
the project created short-term jobs for around 10,000 tourism workers and provided
capacity-building training for 4,000 people after COVID-19.
During
this period, the project ran programmes for river guides for women, trekking guides
for sexual minorities, and tourism strategy development in 150 municipalities
in all seven provinces.
Published in The Rising Nepal daily on 30 August 2024.
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