Since launching with just one homestay in Panauti in 2012, CHN has grown to more than 200 properties in 18 communities. Hosts are required to maintain high standards of safety and cleanliness, and ...

Homestay is still taken as a passive business for the uneducated, unemployed and dependent members of a family. If this trend continues, then homestay tourism can collapse within the next generation.

If homestay is not mediated through an agent the parents pay directly to an Australian agency. Hosts are paid around $1,000 monthly by agencies to accommodate students; ...