ABSTRACT
If money and technology make possible different traversals of space in time, then the nature of tourist mobilities is going to be closely tied to tourists’ relationships with transport technology, time, and money. This chapter traces Nepal’s tourism history through three configurations: elderly elite travelers with much time and money (1955–65); young countercultural travelers rich in time but poor in money (1965–75); and, from the 1970s onwards, adventure tourists—people with money but little time. Each phase illustrates how changing transport technology enables changing tourisms. The chapter explores how touristic mobilities in Nepal have always been entangled with (and constituted by) other material and cultural assemblages, from technology and demography to infrastructure and mediated images.
