Neesha Rajkarnikar

Pokhara University · School of Development and Social Engineering

Digital technologies have become important in tourism business and their development is reshaping this industry. This paper discusses the role of emerging technologies on the digital tourism business ecosystems model for Nepal. It highlights the role of emerging technology and the value they add to the current digital business systems. The study em...

This work presents preliminary analysis and design of the tourism recom-mender system. The work considers Pokhara city of Nepal as the domain of study as it is the second-largest city and tourism capital of Nepal. The work is built on data from travel websites, published and unpublished reports, literature, and a pilot study conducted in the same c...

This work assesses the degree of satisfaction tourists receive as final recipients in a tourism destination based on the fact that satisfied tourists can make a significant contribution to the growth and continuous improvement of a tourism business. The work considers Pokhara, the tourism capital of Nepal as a prefecture of study. A stratified samp...

TripAdvisor is a famous social and travel site that helps people to arrange for different products and services in a destination. This work is an attempt to analyze the TripAdvisor data for the years 2018 to 2020 to find out interesting features, reviews, and aspects embedded in it. The work employs an unsupervised machine learning approach to disc...

This presentation is done at International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Optimization (ICO’2021)

Agriculture is the main industry of Nepal, which contributes around 31.7% of GDP, employing about 65% of the total population. The geography of Nepal consists of three principal regions, the mountainous region, the hilly region, and the plains. The diverse geography and variation of temperature make the country a suitable land for agriculture and c...

This is an oral presentation at the 7th International Istanbul Scientific Research Congress

This is a presentation that was done in the 3RD INTERNATIONAL "BAŞKENT" CONGRESS ON PHYSICAL, SOCIAL, AND HEALTH SCIENCES

The popularity of China as an educational hub for international students has grown in recent years. Attractive scholarship, low cost of living combined with world-class infrastructure makes China one of the leading educational hubs around the world. In this paper we discuss the satisfaction level of Ph.D. students from Nepal, studying under the Chi...

Tourism finds enormous application of ICT in the development of strategic and operational goals. ICT promises long-term benefits and is a leading force in the tourism industry to enhance development and economic growth. The tourism industry in the western world and some developed countries of Asia have applied ICT for more than 30 years, and have g...

Communication is vital for human existence. In all social structures and cultural practices, communication is very important. The development of culture and society is greatly influenced by how individuals interact, interpret information, and communicate with one another. The last few years have seen significant development in the field of Informat...

Communication is vital for human existence. In all social structures and cultural practices, communication is very important. The development of culture and society is greatly influenced by how individuals interact, interpret information, and communicate with one another. The last few years have seen significant development in the field of Informat...

Tourism Recommender System

This work presents preliminary analysis and design of the tourism recommender system. The work considers Pokhara city of Nepal as the domain of study as it is the second-largest city and tourism capital of Nepal. The work is built on data from travel websites, published and unpublished reports, literature, and a pilot study conducted in the same ci...

A well-designed website is mandatory for good marketing and proper tourism business. This research considers Nepal as a domain of study and specifically explores welcomenepal.com, the official tourism portal as a reference for the study. The work is based on the study of the existing literature, user-survey, and technical testing of the website usi...

Digitalization and the inter-connectedness of business systems have increased the dependency between business entities. The ever-changing environment and business demands have increased competition and collaboration among diverse entities, which have forced the concept of ecosystems models. This work highlights the need for a digital tourism busine...

Religion is a very sensitive issue and it can lead to chaos and turmoil that may cause serious risk and social disturbance for tourist if they are not aware of religious norms and sensitivity in a religious destination. Further, the issues of panhandling, selling fake items, charging excessive amounts and abusing females and children's in meditatio...

This work analyses the impact of social network sites on the life of a university student in terms of intensity of use, personal life satisfaction, social trust, social expression and physical health. Study is based on close end survey design and consists of one hundred and fifty-four (154) respondents of four constituent campuses of Pokhara Univer...

Tourism websites are the face of the tourism industry and tourism websites must be well designed to meet user expectations. This work evaluates and analyzes the user requirements to propose design solutions and recommendations for the tourism website of Nepal. The study is drawn on the basis closed-end survey and technical testing of the official t...

Energy has become one of the most important drivers of socio-economic growth. However, situations in developing countries are almost overlooked. Here Nepal is taken as one example, and is found that the results are of great importance to the sustainable of human being. Nepal is a country with a tremendous potential for different types of energy but...

Tourism finds enormous application of ICT in the development of strategic and operational goals. ICT promises long-term benefits and is a leading force in the tourism industry to enhance development and economic growth. The tourism industry in the western world and some developed countries of Asia have applied ICT for more than 30 years, and have g...

Religion is a very sensitive issue and it can lead to chaos and turmoil that may cause serious risk and social disturbance for tourist if they are not aware of religious norms and sensitivity in a religious destination. Further, the issues of panhandling, selling fake items, charging excessive amounts and abusing females and children's in meditatio...

Agriculture is the main industry of Nepal which is challenged at current times due rate of farmer's dissatisfaction leading to ageing problem, workforce migration and lack of interest of the current generation in this sector. Farmers till date get very less return on their product and services compared to the market price. Lack of proper informatio...

The application of Internet technology has created enormous impact on banking sector with the implementation of many techno-oriented services like Internet banking, EFT, branchless banking, Automated Clearing House (ACH) transactions etc. Study of customer's attitude in terms of trust, perceived risk and ease of use of a particular technology is as...