Prospects and Challenges for the Sustainable Development of Wellness Tourism in Nepal

Abstract

Tourism is one of the largest growing industries around the world. The word "Tourism" is formed from the word tour. It is derived from old English turian, from old French torner, and from Latin tornare; means 'to turn on a lathe'. It is itself from ancient Greek tornos; "lathe". The Oxford English Dictionary coined the first word "tourism" in the year 1811. (Leiper, 1983) presents,
Before the 1500s the words "tourist" and "tourism" did not exist. "Tour" was used, certainly in its French context of “tower”: the Greek root is obvious here, since most towers traditionally were circular. Travel literature in the medieval era did not use the terms "tour," "tourist," or "tourism." Instead we find words such as "journeying," "travel" and its original form "travail" (. . .) travel such as "pilgrimage." A recent study on pilgrimage in medieval times sees that phenomenon as the "tourism" of the age, and refers to the "tourism" (p. 277).