TGDB in Tourism Development Planning
Tourism in Nepal has long been identified as adventure tourism. However, people in local areas have not much benefited from the  tourism. This has not helped in reducing poverty of local communities as tourists generally travel in commercial groups and take all logistics support with them. Adventure tourism has generated very little income if any in local tourist destinations while exerting excessive pressure on the local environment. This is one of the reasons why the Government of Nepal has recognized the importance of rural tourism as a potentially important sector for rural areas so that the benefits of tourism could percolate down to the grass roots level, and thus help in reduction of rural poverty. TGDB has been moving towards tourism development and making her contribution through experience sharing and expert services, and involving in studies and preparation of Tourism Plans / Master Plans of different rural areas in the country. These plans have covered different thematic areas such as socio-economics, history and culture, tourism, physical planning and infrastructure development, resource mapping, environment and natural resource management. The study has focused on community development programmes through rural, cultural and pilgrimage tourism based on local participation right from planning to through monitoring and evaluation.
TGDB selected different geographical areas of the country. By now, TGDB has completed the following assignments in its study journey on rural tourism.

Nepal Tourism Board, Tourism for Rural Poverty Alleviation (TRPAP), separate tourism institution established under Development Act and the consumer committees under the District Development Committees have been involving in the implementation of some tourism programmes incorporated in the above studies in their own way. These have been implementing mostly in the form of pieceprogramme by picking certain programme enlisted in the report rather than systematic, continue and plan way. These are, for example, Panchase Tourism Development Master Plan, Resunga Tourism Development Master Plan, Model Tourism Village Plans at Shree Antu, Palpa and Janakpurdham Therefore, it is high time to implement the tourism programes proposed in the above plans by certain specific institution in a systematic and plan way with priority of the plans and programmes, including destination. 
Tara Gaon Development Board has taken the responsibility of implementing a few tourism programmes covered in Varahakshetra Tourism Development Master Plan and Panauti Tourism Development Master Plan since the last fiscal year with the support of respective district development committees, municipalities, VDCs, NGOs and the local people.

Short Description of the Plan / Master Plan Reports

The short description of some of the plan reports presented in the above table are given below: