We are a team of young, energetic, full of enthusiasm; optimistic and
mysterious unite mission and vision in order to promote tourism in Ganesh
Himal ruby valley. After various steps talk about this project with locals,
tourism entrepreneurs and even with our district political parties finally
we decided we need to form an organization which can lead the entire Ganesh
Himal region to promote tourism. We do have innumerable organizations in
the name of promote tourism but may be lack of co-ordination, communication
and possibly inactive role it has not seen much of result.
Our present Executive committee members (ECM) are from Ganesh Himal region
where we born, grown up and studied. Most of us are in tourism business and
every one has not less than 20 years of experience in the same field. We
were sometimes porter, cook, Sherpa and guide now having our own companies.
We have young energetic trek guides in our committee who did, does and will
be doing trekking and lots of adventurous activities in the coming days in
Nepal, Tibet and India.
Those company bearer have excellent theoretical ideas but then those field
workers have remarkable ideas how village tourism has developed in other
countries or areas and obviously in every meeting we share ideas how we can
develop or promote in our area in a better way. After all these
combinations we are one solid core of team anything we do in order to
promote tourism to uplift locals life in economically, socially and
culturally we never say "No" because we have decided and dedicated to help
in this area.
We have registered officially and legally our organization in our district
headquarter, Dhading. We have our head office in Chalish village of
Shertung Village Development committee (VDC) but have settled contact
office and meeting place at Paknajol, Kathmandu paying Rs. 6000/- per month
house rent. Water bill, electricity and meeting tea costs us minimum about
Rs. 10,000/- per month. We have social norms and vision so we have no
donors, no sponsors and no contributors we collect at least 300/- per
person as a levy from each executive committee members and Rs. 1000/- from
president, Rs. 500/- both from vice president and secretary. We know it is
not sufficient even to pay house rent then at the end we help by own
interest who likes to add more to full fill at least house rent. To be
honest sometimes it's painful to ask monies from the ECM and do not get any
help from anywhere but we know our mission is not collect or ask support
for money from anywhere and anyone so we do our best and we believe that we
win one day being success promoting Ganesh Himal region as a best tourist
destination.
We have very social prestigious advisor committee of 11 members who are
also from Dhading district and well known tourism entrepreneurs in the
travel trade. We do also have our working committee of 12 members who are
another tourism pioneers their duty and responsibility is to drive whole
organization members providing new ideas, suggestions, mission and visions.
We have conducted several meetings, seminars and promotional program in the
villages to aware them what is tourism and what advantage and disadvantage
you get from tourism. What should do and should not do etc. We know well
but unfortunately Nepal has extremely melted by dirty politics and local
villages and locals are not far away from its influence so for our trekkers
or visitors' safety as well as security we have long discussion with local
political representatives and shared the importance of tourism. Finally we
have all of their singed code of conduct and promise letter saying none of
their political cadres will collect illegal donation, harass, threat, and
misbehave or any unnecessary hassle to the tourist. It has given us big
hope and confidence that we can promote tourism in this area. As far as we
know it has never any coincident till the date in this area but we know
well tourism being very sensitive business we are aware of this. We have
been training all our locals to alive their culture and custom so that our
visitors can enjoy it like having local culture show program, visiting
local museum, local mane (local stupas), monastery, temples etc…etc…
We have formed sub committee of our organization GHTDC in every VDC to
support our organization and also initiate in promoting tourism by the
local youngsters as well as mother and father group. At the moment we do
have sub committees in 7 VDC of Ganesh Himal region (especially upper part)
but in the near future we will be forming more in the lower parts too so
that if anything happens tourist get easily help or we really good and bad
news both from them what is happening in the villages.
