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| | Officials of the Royal Nepal Airlines have issued an apology to Peru after they mistakenly used the photo of Peru's Inca ruins (Machu Picchu) to advertise tourism in Nepal.
Wednesday, the foreign ministry of Peru said that Nepal wrongly used the photo of the Inca's ruins tourist attraction under the slogan "Have you seen Nepal?"
The mistake was first noted last month by a Peruvian mountaineer, who visited India, and accidentally saw the tourism poster advert in the airline's office in New Delhi. The poster used Peru's most famous tourist destination Machu Picchu to promote tourism in Nepal. He then contacted Peru's officials and they demanded an explanation from Nepal's airline via the embassy.
The Royal Nepal Airlines has promptly issued an official apology saying that they inadvertently used the photo of the Machu Picchu Sanctuary to advertise tourist attractions in their country and assured that the error has been corrected. The airline has fired the manager who allowed this advertising mistake to happen and has assured that it was an isolated error.
Nepal is famous for the Himalayas and the many mountain temples there, which remain the most visited of Nepal's tourist attractions. From a distance many of Himalaya's mountain temples resemble Inca's ruins which also added to the confusion in the erroneous tourist attractions advertisement.
Nepal's tourism advert was part of a massive tourism campaign which is sanctioned by the government in hopes that more tourists will visit Nepal's Himalayan Mountains and ancient temples there.
The Peruvian government, on the other hand, is encouraging its residents and visitors to nominate and vote for Peru's Andean Machu Picchu site as one the world's new seven wonders.
Machu Picchu was built in the fifteenth century and was abandoned for three hundred years after the Spanish conquest. The site was rediscovered in 1911 by the American archaeologist Hiram Bingham.
Dangers of tourism:
* Ecological dangers:
First of all, tourism effects the environment by an excessive concentration of production and people in the tourist centers, they acquire the unused natural complexes and it intensifies the effect of other branches (agriculture, construction, timber cutting, hunting etc).
* Loss of cultural values:
The commercialization of lives and tourism development in various regions leads to the vulgarization of traditions and a fall in the values of a national culture. A special concern in the world community is caused by sex tourism and the smuggling of artifacts by tourists.
* Negative effect on environment:
The environment constantly threatens the people by various acts of nature. The social environment has such problems like epidemics, HIV - infection, crime, the spread of drug addiction, violence, terrorism, piracy and armed conflicts. Annually about 30 countries fall under the category of the ones that are adverse for tourism.
* Anthropogenic dangers:
One of the most serious risks in tourism is transport accidents, failures and catastrophes. Many problems create major accidents in atomic power stations, chemical plants, and military establishments. Accidents and fires on the objects of the tourism industry every year lead to injuries and deaths to tourists.
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The tourism ad poster for Nepal mistakenly used a photo of a Peruvian Inca site under the slogan "Have you seen Nepal?"
