Traveling safety is the major concern of anyone wanting to travel anywhere these days. Especially when visiting rural communities and staying anywhere as a homestay guest, it is understandable that there will…
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Experiencing Nepal With Local Communities Safely: Travel Safety Tips
Travel and tourism have come to a virtual standstill everywhere for almost all of 2020 due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. With approaching one million new cases per day and up to…
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Project Collaboration for Communities
When we think of Nepal, we think of mountains, different landscapes, temples and festivals. We seldom think about Nepal as a home to generations of people carrying a plethora of indigenous knowledge and expertise.…
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Community Homestay Network awarded with Booking.com grant to support local communities affected by COVID-19
The tourism industry in Nepal is at a standstill. The socio-economic impact of this has been drastic and has left no one (from hoteliers to homestay owners) unscathed. For many local communities…
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COVID-19 Stories: How the locals are coping with the Pandemic and current Lock down in Nepal
As the nation faces a nation wide lock down Community Homestays have now taken a pause with few people near the tea station and more at staying home with the loved ones.…
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Empowering the Women of Nepal
In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, we sat down with our COO Poonam Gupta to talk about women’s empowerment, female solo travel and more. Here’s what she had to tell…