Article: Hotels as sites of power: tourism, status, and politics in Nepal Himalaya./Les hotels comme lieux de pouvoir: tourisme, statut et politique dans l'Himalaya nepalais.

It was the first day of the Tibetan New Year in Langtang. Tashi and his family made their offerings to the gods for their continual protection. He had started a small teashop on a piece of inherited land situated along the village's main path in the early 1990s. Since then, the teashop had prospered, and become a proper hotel with a dining room and sleeping quarters. Now Tashi felt especially blessed, for he had just opened his third and grandest hotel. To thank the gods, he erected a new prayer pole in the grounds of his new lodge, and a lama had been invited to conduct the Ihabsang (Tib. lha bsang) ceremony to pray for a long life, good health, and material prosperity.

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