Planet Happiness

NEWS

A Report Like No Other

We're delighted to release our report on tourism and wellbeing in Nepal's iconic Sagarmatha (Mt Everest) National Park. The report contrasts tourism, development and change over the last 30 years, drawing upon settlement and household data sets collected between 1993 and 2022.

The report:

identifies key issues currently undermining the wellbeing of the destination,
presents findings from deploying the Happiness Index survey in settlements in the Park and its buffer zone,
makes recommendations to strengthen the wellbeing of host communities, the Park and its environs,
highlights the urgent need to apply lessons from this exceptional example of community development through tourism to other sites, especially protected areas that are home to indigenous communities, around the World.

A low resolution version of the report is available for download below. The full resolution version is available for download on our Sagarmatha page.

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AN INTRODUCTION TO PLANET HAPPINESS.

WHO WE ARE.

Planet Happiness is a TOURISM and BIG DATA project of the Happiness Alliance

Our mission is to focus the attention of all tourism stakeholders on the well-being agenda......
...and use tourism as a vehicle for development that demonstrably strengthens destination sustainability and the quality of life of host communities.

At Planet Happiness, we work with all tourism stakeholders to position host-community well-being front and centre.

WHAT WE DO.

Planet Happiness helps destinations advance their competitive edge through more inclusive, more responsible and more purposeful tourism planning.

Using the state-of-the-art Happiness Alliance's Happiness Index survey, which is based on Bhutan's pioneering approach to measure Gross National Happiness. Planet Happiness measures the happiness of residents living in World Heritage sites and beyond.

We harvest data that directly measures how individual residents and destination communities view their well-being.

HOW WE DO IT.

We partner locally to deploy the Happiness Index - an OECD recognised & scientifically valid comprehensive tool that provides a direct experience of how well-being is measured.

We analyse data to produce one-page destination score-cards and in-depth data-rich reports. Our reports spark conversations about tourism and destination well-being and how this relationship can be strengthened.

Please see this short introduction video to our Ten Step Approach.

WHAT WE MEASURE.

Based upon Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness (GNH) domains, the factors of happiness we measure are:

Community
Environment
Life-long learning, arts & culture
Psychological well-being
Government
Health

Standard of living
Economy
Social supoort
Time balance
Satisfaction with life
Work
Tourism

Why Happiness Matters

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