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| | Officials of 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 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 the 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 the
Nepal's airline via the embassy.
Royal Nepal Airlines has promptly issued an official apology saying
that they inadvertently used the photo of 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 Himalayas and many mountain temples there, which
remain the most visited Nepal's tourist attractions. From a distance
many or Himalaya's mountain temples resemble Inca's ruins which also added
to 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 Himalayas mountains and ancient temples there.
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 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 excessive concentration of production and people in the tourist centers, acquire the unused natural complexes and intensifies the effect of other branches (agriculture, construction, timber cutting, hunting).
* Loss of cultural values:
Commercialization of lives and tourism development in various regions leads to the vulgarization of traditions and fall in the values of national culture. Special concern in world community is caused by sex tourism and smuggling of artifacts by the tourists.
* Negative effect on environment:
Environment constantly threatens the people by various acts of nature. Social environment has such problems like epidemics, HIV - infection, crime, spread of drug addiction, violence, terrorism, piracy, 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 the 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 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?"
