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By leading an Ecotourism Enterprise styled " Sunshine Himalayan Adventure" which specializes in opening remote areas like " The Tirthan and Sainj Valleys" , Great Himalayan National Park etc in a sustained manner by training and generating employment to the local people of these villages. please visit www.sunshineadventure.com
By devoting my time to the Government Degree College as an undergraduate lecturer teaching Tours and Travels to the youth of the valley , promoting sustainable ecotourism alternatives and employment generation. By supervising various Tourism Research proposals at the Bacherlor and Masters level through IGNOU.
By Founding and Leading a volunteer initative called the Kullu Project which helps various orphanages and Poor schools in the Kullu valley. Please visit http://kulluproject.web.officelive.com/default.aspx
By running various training camps for the local communities and attending workshops, seminars and conferneces of ecotourism for the Great Himalayan National Park . Please visit www.greathimalayannationalpark.com
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Great Himalayan National Park and Himachal Pradesh. Visit www.greathimalayannationalpark.com for details on this hidden jewel of Himalayas.
I want ecotourism to act as the most effective tool to address problems like poverty, illiteracy , unemployment and health & hygiene social evils and gender issues. leading to conservation of the most fragile environments in the western Himalayas.
I am a lecturer of Ecotourism in the Govt. Degree College at Kullu teaching tourism to undergraduates. I became a naturalist and guide after receiving a Bachelors Degree in Commerce and a Masters Degree in Tourism from Himachal University. One holds a Certificate in Environmental Tourism from IGNOU and will soon begin working towards my PhD in Ecotourism. i have worked as an interpretive naturalist for the Great Himalayan National Park and has been involved in community and environmental activism in the Western Himalayas from 1996 to the present. My community based work include using my computer programming expertise to help create the website for the Western Himalayan Mountaineering Institute www.himalayanadventure.org and working with SAHARA (NGO) in creating a staff-training manual for tourism guides as well as increasing the marketing of traditional crafts and tourism products to help improve the livelihoods of the local Kullu Valley people. For the last 8 years, i have guided and operated SHA to be at the forefront of Eco-friendly tours to the Western Himalayas.
