As he sees it, local benefit from Dolpa's growing tourism has been close to negligible — not from lack of capacity, but from lack of coordination. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which counts most of Dolpa's major businessmen among its members, believes it could change that by organising a genuine, year-round supply chain for trekkers: logistics, porters, mules, food, and whatever else a trekking group needs, sourced locally instead of brought in from outside.
This would help to disburse benefit to local people, as opposed to the present trend of tourism without any benefit to local people.
The obstacle is almost entirely structural. Local businessmen have the capital to invest in the facilities tourists would need — what's missing is a working relationship with the travel agencies that actually control the bookings. Without some guarantee that food and supplies will actually sell, businesses have little reason to stock up in advance. The Chamber's proposed fix is modest: two weeks' advance notice from agencies planning a trek, enough time to confirm supply and have it ready.
It isn't a large ask, in his view — and the upside, if agencies took it up, would be a genuinely new, prosperous field of local investment rather than the current arrangement, where money mostly passes through Dolpa without stopping.