Our Mission:

We will transform tourism in Nepal by providing local community people and tourists a richer environment to collaborate and plan travel.

Our Vision:

We envision a Nepal transformed by socially aware tourism – a world where local people more fully participate in the tourism economy and foreign/local tourists find/gain richer experiences. We are building a direct bridge between them.

Exoticbuddha will offer an meritocratic online market place for Nepal’s tourism industry that lowers the existing barriers for local travel stakeholders and travel communities to be entrepreneurial, visible and connected with the travellers. We are building a direct bridge between travellers and local communities here in Nepal.

This is aimed firstly at local guides, or local hotel owners in off the beaten track places who are unable to promote themselves in the exclusive and crowded marketplace in Kathmandu, Nepal. Secondly, to independent tourists who want to do something different to the rest of the crowd, save on agents fees and have a holiday that makes a difference. 500,000 tourists visit Nepal every year and we estimate that in a few years all of them will be online and looking for services through online marketplace such as ours and our competitors. There is a billion Indian and Chinese population on either side of Nepal that is rapidly looking for ways to travel as a form of enjoyment. Nepal being smack in the middle, is ripe to take this opportunity.

While we will offer business services to help the local travel stake holders to have an equal footing on the online marketplace,  we will also generate a portion of our revenue from advertising. We also provide free-mium services to the local stakeholders.

Additionally, ExoticBuddha.com is a guide to those of you who wish to travel to Nepal. You will find answers to the questions about Nepal that would encourage you to board a flight to Nepal and help to make your stay here a meaningful one. If you can not find information you are looking for on the website, type a question – you will find answers to that question from other visitors and from us.

You could share your experiences and expertise by creating a free blog – adding texts, pictures there – commenting on the answers that we have provided and the questions your fellow visitors have asked. Heck! You can even correct answers if you feel they are misleading. Be a part of this community by asking questions, answering and commenting on them or by simply browsing the website.

If you want to contact us, please write to us at info@exoticbuddha.com. You can also call us at 617 395 0199 (US) or Nepal 977-1-4372115

Our Achievement: ExoticBuddha.com was selected as one of the 65 projects from the initial 286 applicants from 45 countries who had applied for the Unreasonable Institute . We finished up with the interview and are awaiting the the list of finalists which will be announced in January 10, 2010.

Team:

Ujwal Thapa

Besides, being the founder of www.exoticbuddha.com, a innovative travel information portal on traveling in Nepal, he is also a blogger in “www.whynepal.com“. He is also the founder and director of Digital Max solutions, a south Asian offshore website developer team and an online solutions provider based in Nepal (north of India) for 6 years now. Our clients range from multi-nationals from Australia to Internet companies in USA. In the last year,he has been busy in numerous new startups and experimental ventures.

• dmslist.com, a job listing portal for Nepal and North India.
• newsfeed.com.np, a comprehensive up to date news site about Nepal (which gathers news from BBC, and other news outlet and presents them in a single page of links.
• Shangrilacoffee.com, an organic coffee farm and cooperative in western Nepal.

Bijaya Shiwakoti

Bijaya is the Project Manager of ExoticBuddha.com. He has extensive experience in the social sector in Nepal through the alumni organization of Budhanilkantha School, Society of Ex Budhanilkantha Students (www.sebsonline.org).

Uttam KC

Uttam is the Marketing Manager of Exoticbuddha.com. He leads the overall administration of Digital Max Solutions. He has over 9 years of working experience in national and international organizations such as Mother and Infant Research Activities (MIRA).

Sakin Shrestha

Sakin is the human resource and project manager of Digital Max Solutions and has more then 7 years of working experience in national and international organizations such as the United Nations. He in an avid traveler. Besides managing projects, he explores new web technologies and is into hacking into his favorite content management system, Wordpress and Wordpress MU.

Jimba Tamang

Jimba is a CSS designer and has the working experiences of the website design and development of more than 3 years.

Vinay Poudel

Vinay is the open source programmer with many years of working experience in the website development sector.

Suman Shrestha

Suman is the open source programmer for ExoticBuddha.com.

Chandra Maharjan

Chandra contributed ideas to the ExoticBuddha.com initiative.

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