Nepal - Survey of Hotels and Lodges 2003-2004

Listing operation of hotels and lodges was undertaken throughout the kingdom. The list thus obtained was used as the sampling frame to select the sample of resort and non-star hotel for survey. In the case of star hotel, complete enumeration was conducted as they are not very many in number. For resorts and non-star hotels complete enumeration was undertaken in those domains having less than three establishments. In other domains, samples were allocated in proportion to their number. The domains of study are as follows:

1. Urban/Rural by class
2. Five Eco-development regions by class
3. Three Ecological Belts by class
4. Resort and non-star and their classification

The stratified sample design was used. The stratification of hotel and lodge was done by class and classification of eco-development regions and their rural/urban.

The following condition was satisfied in this design.

· Confidence level was at 95%
· Total number of room of establishment was considered as a variable. Variance was estimated from these variables for each domain.
· Permissible error between and = 0.5, which is around 5 % of the population mean
· The maximum variability of domain was taken to estimate the sample size, which gives optimum sample size.

By using finite population correction, the sample size was determined to be 662, which is around 18% of total population. In each stratum the required no of sample was drawn by arranging establishments according to their number of rooms in descending order then systematic scheme was adopted to select the sample. The selected establishments in the sample were then identified by their district. In this manner the total number of district are 39.

Please refer to Annex 2 of the report for details.