Pandemic Impact on the Travels and Tourism Sector of Nepal

The travel and tours enterprise were badly affected due to pandemics. In the aftermath of high restrictions on human movement, travel-based entrepreneurs were highly impacted due to lockdown. Due to pandemic, highly impacted into earning-saving, lack of supportive working conditions, lower self-capacity, and lack of recovery budget and policies, the travel and tours-based entrepreneurs were highly impacted. The study reflected the impact of pandemics on travel and tours, major constraints, and a possible way forward to sustaining. The research explores what are the major existing practices of sustaining travel and tours entrepreneurs during pandemics, what factors can contribute to building bounce-back capacities of travel and tours entrepreneurs’ sustainability. Above forty-four, snowball-based sampling was done from major travel and tours entrepreneurs, Pokhara-Nepal. A structure-based open-ended questionnaire, key informant interviews, and in-person-based discussion were applied in the method of study. Used the content analysis along with a recap of the research question, undertake bracketing to identify biases, operationalize variables with develop a coding, and code the data with undertaking analysis while qualitative analysis, and multiple regression facilitated on quantitative analysis to finalize the discussion. The study reflects that self-saving, social support, state and financial institutions recovery support, social behavior and change communication, full vaccination practices, and self-accountable tourist behavior are highly expectable conditions to the sustainability of travel and torus entrepreneurship in the learning area. The study concludes that self-saving capacity can contribute to bounce-back capacity for every entrepreneur. Social support and socioeconomic recovery packages were also contributing to sustaining travel and tours in the study area. Self-saving condition and capacity is higher bounce back capacity compared to non-saved entrepreneurs in the study area. Social support, socioeconomic recovery practices, and recovery packages from state and financial institutions were not at the higher level as expected.

The Analysis of Impact of Training on Employee Development: A Case of Public Accountant Trainees in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

The current study analyzes the impact of training on employees'' development perceptions and the influence the said perceptions on employees'' job-related attitudes and behavior in the public sector organizations i.e. Accountant General Office in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The research study assesses the mediating role of development in relation to training and organizational commitment, employee motivation, job performance, turnover intentions and job satisfaction. The evaluation of research model was carried out through Confirmatory Factor Analysis by using the statistical technique of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The current study is an effort to emphasize the importance of training and promoting the perceptions of employee development within the public sector organizations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in particular, and in Pakistan, in general. The results of the study demonstrate that employee development perceptions have a direct and positive impact on enhancing organizational commitment, employee motivation, job performance, and job satisfaction; while, negatively affect the employees’ turnover intentions. Similarly, the research model and its constructs have demonstrated the proposed interdependence. Again, the study help the policy makers who are responsible for policy formulation to rehash their policies by encompassing the approaches that facilitate the promotion of perceptions of employee development and their fruitful outcomes for the effectiveness of the organization. Replication of the study may help to validate the hypothesized constructs and their consequent application in the organizations that share somewhat similar organizational structures.