e-Review of Tourism Research (eRTR), Vol. 4, No.3, 2006 http://ertr.tamu.edu 50 ________________________________________________________________________ Raghu Bista Department of Business Administration University of Macedonia A Tourism Plan to Alleviate Rural Poverty in Nepal In this paper, efforts undertaken through TRPAP (Tourism for Rural Poverty Alleviation Program) are discussed. TRPAP is a program designed to contribute to the poverty alleviation objective of government through demonstrating sustainable tourism development models in rural areas of Nepal. The working modalities and achievements are presented. In the context of growing importance of quality in the tourism sector, recommendations are made to focus on past, present and future visitors’ needs and expectation Key words: poverty alleviation, tourism development, basic infrastructures, quality By Raghu Bista Trainer of Nepal Administration Staff College, Nepal And Doctoral Student, University of Macedonia, Department of Business Administration, Address: 156 Agnatia str., 540 06 Thessaloniki, Greece. Telephone: 0030 6947508813 Fax Number: 0030 2310 891544 Email: raghu_bi@yahoo.com . Short biography Raghu Bista is the Trainer of Nepal Administrative Staff College, one of the reputed management institutions in Nepal. He has been working there since 1998. He completed MBA from Tribhuvan University, Nepal, in 1995. Now he is a doctoral candidate of University of Macedonia, Department of Business Administration, Greece.