Dicky Karki Chhetri of Three Sisters Adventure and Ava Shah and Sangita Rana from a travel agency were conferred with outstanding women entrepreneur award for their contribution in the tourism sector. [break]
Three Sisters Adventure is the first agency to introduce women trekking guide. Shah and Rana run a travel agency that holds GSA of Jet Airways in Nepal.
Natasha Shrestha of Avia Club and Renu Staphit of WEAN´s Lalitpur Chapter were also conferred with outstanding women entrepreneurs award. Avia Club operates air sports like paragliding and paramotor in Nepal.
FWEAN President Chhaya Sharma handed over the awards to the women entrepreneurs. She also handed over certificate of appreciation to WEAN chapters.
FWEAN at present has eight chapters across the country. It is planning to expand its reach to all 75 districts.
Sharing her views on the occasion, Sharma said tourism could be the most convenient sector for women to start business. Highlighting the importance of ´home stay tourism´, she said the product could promote tourism by adding local touch.
Citing global data, keynote speaker Chadani Joshi said women were working more hours than men and contributing equally in national economy of respective countries. "Unfortunately, property ownership of women is limited to just 10 percent," she added.
She also said 70 percent of world´s poor people were women and majority of them were in the Asia region.
"Economic empowerment can change women´s status, but we should introduce ´life-circle´ approach for empowerment," she said, stressing on the necessity of collective marketing and branding of products made by women.
“Food processing can be a good sector for women to start business. It has a big market with increasing busy schedule of people and our women can do really well at it," Joshi added.
Women entrepreneurs, women right activists and diplomats were present on the occasion.
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