Dear Gaurav

I have no experience related to the Himalayan tourism scenario, however,  I have had some exposure to the tourism industry in a couple of cases and I think that they probably are not too much different as in the Himalayan region.

Naturally, I started analysing for each place which are the advantages and disadvantages, which are the different projects that can be executed alone of jointly to attract tourism, and all of them subject to a series of criteria .

There could be many criteria, depending on each case. For instance you may want to consider hospitality, mainly hotels, hostels, campings, etc as well as prices. You need to take into account aspects such as accessibility to each site, historic sites, beautiful areas (such as Dajeerling), visiting temples, possibility for hiking, experiencing driving in high altitude roads, watching animals and birds,  average temperatures, amenities such as sky slopes, water pools for swimming, tennis courts, as well as first aid facilities, transportation within each site, rescue services in high mountain trails, information bureaus, etc.

You can use different models for selecting the best alternatives for a site or and for choosing a site,, but consider also the resources limitation, for instance maximum capacity of hotels, electric energy supply, etc.

I used Linear Programming

You can find papers on the management of the tourism in high mountain nepalese areas in  a special number Special Issue: Methodologies and Tools for the Management of Mountain Protected Areas: Mount Everest (Nepal, China) and K2 (Pakistan) Regions

Agostino Da Polenza, Beth Schommer, Emanuela Chiara Manfredi, Gianni Tartari, Susanne Wymann von Dach

Jun 2010Mountain Research and Development

http://www.bioone.org/toc/mred/30/2

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May 2010 : Volume 30 Special Issue: Methodologies and Tools for the Management of Mountain Protected Areas-Mount Everest (Nepal, China) and K2 (Pakistan) Regions

http://www.bioone.org/toc/mred/30/2

Article An Integrated Decision Support Toolbox (DST) for the Managem...

Article Improving Communication for Management of Social-ecological ...

Article Solid Waste and Water Quality Management Models for Sagarmat...

Article Experience With a Hard and Soft Participatory Modeling Frame...

Article Energy, Forest, and Indoor Air Pollution Models for Sagarmat...

Article Multiple Carrying Capacities from a management-oriented pers...

Article Special Issue: Methodologies and Tools for the Management of...

Article New Challenges for Managing Sustainable Tourism in Protected...

Dear Nolberto Munier sir thank you very much for your inputs and I will try to incorporate and work on your suggestions..

Dear Stefano Polesello thank you very much sir for suggesting papers I will go through all the papers you shared I hope they help me to gain some view regarding the factors and methodology part.