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• Lecture 6
• Issues in Tourism International Perspectives
• Tourism and Change Case Studies - India Nepal

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1. Implications of tourism Case Study Taj Mahal
video, 25 min approx.
2. Tourism and absurdities Case study Freak and
Z Streets in Kathmandu, Nepal
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Case Study 1 Freak and Z A tale of development
and change in Kathmandus tourist districts
Objectives

• Examine patterns of development and change

• Development Spatial Structure density,
  form, type and number of tourism establishments,
  and change in residential utility and function

• Land use and aesthetics

• Modernity local to global, traditional to
  cosmopolitan, residential to touristic, authentic
  to contrived, crime and prostitution

• Observations on destination life cycle

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.Still the world is wondrous large Seven
Seas from marge to marge And it holds a vast of
various kinds of man, And the wildest dreams of
Kew are the facts of Kathmandu And the crimes of
Clapham Chaste at Martaban In the Neolithic
Age by Rudyard Kipling
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Methods
Preliminary Fieldwork in Summer 2009 1 month

• Inventory of tourist establishment

• Informal interviews with entrepreneurs - 44

• Published/unpublished sources

Personal insights and narratives as a past
resident
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Study Background
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Study Locations Freak Street and Z Street
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Royal Palace until 1896 Now a World Heritage Site
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Local meets the global - The Beatles, Jim
Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, the Rolling
Stones, Kurt Cobain
Bob Seger I am going to
Katmandu.. Cat Stevens -
Katmandu, Ill soon be seeing you
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Freak Street (Jhonche)
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Source Fieldwork 2009
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Spatial characteristics of touristic development
on Z street

• Highly compact development
• Horizontal and vertical expansion
• Front and backstreet contrasts
• Development of courtyard shops
• Main street developments spilling into alleys
• Single/two story to multi story buildings
• Department stores

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Z Street Thamel
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Land use change in Kathmandu Metropolitan Area
1976-2009
Source Rimal, 2009
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Cashing on the notoriety
Hotel Eden in Thamel
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Contrasting street scenes
Reinterpreting Kipling?
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Absurdities

• Sacred and the profane
• Selling fantasy, paradise
• Selling imitation (metaphorically)
• - Strange and familiar

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The Sacred and the Profane
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Displacement
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Some are hanging on
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Barely
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Butlers life cycle in action
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Signs of rejuvenation?
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Conclusions

• Patterns of change - chaotic, unpredictable,
  absurd
• What goes around comes around development
  cycle
• - From Freak Street to Z Street - back to
  Freak Street
• - Z Street turning into a Freak Street?
• - Re-developing Freak Street?

• Microcosm of globalization effects

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.And the wildest dreams of Kew are the facts of
Kathmandu.
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