America Needs of Nepal´s Village Tourism For Its Change

Dr Surendra Bhakta Pradhanang
Today America needs a change in economic and social development pattern. Every American would seek a new matrix of innovative thought and spirit of national development. Barack Obama, the presidential candidate, in this connection, is in front line. The president of the United States of America has to considerably take up the idea.

Nepal´s Village Tourism invites 30-minute walk in tourism village in the non-motorized infrastructure built foot walk or sidewalk in a hassle free society that cuts environment´s Co2 emissions. The Zero-pollution or Zero- waste that has picked up is the natural village synchronized with car-free and pedestrian friendly walking green village or green road in Nepal. A smart growth plan that encourages residents and visitors to leave their car a little far away or parking area. Village tourism project connects local, village and district or state green way systems along with village economic development.

We need or prefer walkable and healthy communities that are probably out of reach to the big cities of the advanced countries of the world like Manhattan in New York.

Village tourism which is the innovative approach and curative strategy to the growing automobile epidemic in the world has a more walkable community. The history of Nepal´s village tourism shows that if good, healthy and green destinations are developed and promoted; visitors from the nation and world would prefer to stay and walk a lot.

The idea of village tourism is to create connectivity between those separate green way systems, so that people would like to travel from village to village, town to village, state to village and nation to village.

When Americans felt in love with the car- automobile – a hundred year ago, our ancestors opened the ´Pandora´s Box ´.Consequently, grief, unhappiness and a heap of environment related problems crept out. In the early twentieth century car was freedom based mobility and an environmentally friendly alternative to the horse – drawn carriage.

Opened the Pandora´s Box, Hope flying placed in the mind encouraged for living to manhood on the ground of tourism village or green and pleasant destination of the world.

Spending holidays with 30-minute walk in the tourism village or county is as climate change intervention, diabetes precaution and safety proposition in environment.

One century later the creation and demand of automobile has been a great problem experienced to addiction. Statistically, the ratio of division of car with respect to person rated to 1:2. In other words, there is one car divided to two people in the United States. A study showed that the Americans really loved cars or automobiles. This is the U.S.A. badly addicted to the automobile, which is considered as modern development in the country, but it has been a global environmental problem. Basically, cars and trucks are major reasons for two-thirds of oil consumption. And transportation is responsible for one – third on total carbon emissions. America faces oil addiction to carbon emission.

Walking is assumed as the gold bullet to diabetes. The consumption of over oil creates stress, obesity and health related problems. We need not move or research and invest more capital in village walk in the tourism village. A pair of trekking shoes with a strong mind or habit of walking is needed.Increasingly, driving has now been most standardized in our living style and culture. The national planners or developers rarely think over pedestrian´s issues and desires. The U.S. was an early leader in the proliferation of cars and car culture.

The International Panel on climate control has to start a campaign from driving to walking which is the key strategy to mitigating transparently emissions. Walking is the big cure to the big problems of life. We are not talking about selling of the cars nor walking everywhere all the times. The over weight of American people have had many more health problems. Millions of Americans are being suffered from diabetes, which is not good when we think of the healthy environment. Today we have to develop healthy America and glorious America in full term. We see a lot of parking space and environmental problems and regulations. The road widening day by day exhibits eight - lane highways in the U.S.

How can we imagine the world – as Carfree Network – initiating the car-free lifestyle?

Most of our surface streets or roads are lacking sidewalks for pedestrians and less than 5% of our streets have bike lanes. The environment is badly suffered due to the lack of connectivity and over dependence increased to automobiles.

The Center for Disease Control and Environmental Health Center stated that if Americans just one car trip a day with a 30-minute walk, the average individual would lose 13 pounds a year while cutting U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide by 64 millions tons. Besides, we can save 6.5 billion gallons of gas while shedding three billion pounds.

The world environment conscious people and intellectuals need of a climate action plan in walking, biking and living with nature and village or county. The active transportation plan – walking and biking – and tourism village development living plan are today´s necessary plan, earmarking resources for green paths and sidewalks, which may be a good testament to the theory.

The community has to be repeatedly cited as the model for village tourism development along with walking green sides.

Now is the right time to follow this type of projects and to develop in America especially in county and unexplored areas of city soon. The story of making alternative forms of transportation and living will be more popular if our mind timely diverted to Nepal´s village tourism idea propounded and developed by Dr.Pradhanang of Nepal

It will be a good understanding of environmental implications and contribution to a population initiated to get rid of their over car and car culture. We imagine of green way and green village to walk on without worrying any traffic.

The national average price of the gasoline rising to $ 4 is pricier to people. When gasoline price level will reach $6 a gallon, a lot more people will start walking. Driving to work 30 miles each way should not be a lifestyle of the people.

When over driving is not the way of sustainable business, we have to search for better understanding and alternative choice which is Nepal´s village tourism idea for all and better world on sustainability.