"Since the quake, Pokhara has been vacant," Gurung grumbled to AFP in the lakeside resort, which once thronged with sightseers pulled in by its Himalayan vistas and outside experience exercises.
"Without voyagers there is no work. I ought to be making thousands, yet right now we are fortunate to acquire a hundred or two ($1-2) a day," said the 49-year-old, who has filled in as a boatman and traveler direct in Pokhara for a long time.
Pokhara's bright hiker bistros, lodgings and handiwork stores got away from the shake unscathed — as did the well known Annapurna trekking trails that snake upwards from the resort.
However traveler landings have tumbled off a precipice since the April 25 catastrophe, and appointments are 95 percent down on a similar period a year ago.
It is an example reproduced over the frantically poor Himalayan nation, which depends on tourism for around four percent of its GDP and 3.5 percent of all business.
"Around 90 percent of visit appointments until the point that September have been crossed out," said Dal Bahadur Limbu, who runs Kathmandu-based travel specialist Fast Travel and Tours.
"Income from this season is no more."
Numerous well known traveler goals were crushed by the shudder, which together with a solid May 12 consequential convulsion slaughtered about 8,800 individuals and annihilated a large portion of a million homes.
The calamity struck at the stature of the spring trekking season in Nepal and executed many vacationers, stranding numerous others in remote mountain regions cut off via avalanches and open just by helicopter.
It set off a huge torrential slide that wiped out the town of Langtang, a halting off point on a well known trekking course of a similar name, covering it under huge amounts of ice and shake.
Another torrential slide hit Everest base camp at its busiest time in front of the spring climbing season, killing 18 individuals.
Yet, numerous vacationer draws were for all intents and purposes untouched — including the well known Annapurna trails in the west of the nation, the untamed life rich national parks of the southern fields and Buddha's origin, Lumbini.
'We are casualties as well'
"We need to let the world realize that we are sheltered and prepared to welcome voyagers," said Ganesh Bahadur Bhattarai, who is organizing a battle to take visitors back to Pokhara for the fall season.
The tourism business person is pushing for a universal air terminal in Pokhara — a since a long time ago slowed down venture considered 40 years back.
"Kathmandu is the main entryway for universal travelers, yet it was influenced by the shake," he said.
Numerous Western nations, including the United States, Britain and Canada, are as yet exhorting against all superfluous go to Nepal, refering to the danger of post-quake tremors and further avalanches in shudder hit regions.
Most travel protection approaches are discredited by such guidance, a noteworthy hindrance to tourism.
A large number of Nepal's sightseers originated from neighboring India and China, neither of which have exhorted against travel.
Be that as it may, entries from the two nations have fallen drastically and travel organizations in Nepal said Chinese sightseers were experiencing difficulty getting official consent to go there.
Anxious to bait remote guests back, Nepal's legislature as of late revived the notable previous regal squares of the Kathmandu Valley and pronounced the range open for tourism.
The administration gauges it needs more than $400 million to modify harm to framework.
Tourism service representative Madan Krishna Sapkota said the impact may last two more years, with misfortunes evaluated at $623 million.
Be that as it may, a few specialists see that as hopeful since it doesn't consider the stream down impact on nearby economies.
In Pokhara the craftsmanship shops and bistros offering conventional Nepali dishes nearby such hiker top choices as pizza and flapjacks stand discharge.
Australian development laborer Evan Kosic was among a modest bunch of vacationers who had overlooked supplications from family and companions to scratch off his excursion designs.
"It is not so terrible as we figured it would be," said the 33-year-old in the wake of coming back from a trek in the Annapurnas that lone he and his companion appeared for, despite the fact that 14 initially joined.
"You most likely accomplish more harm by not coming. Individuals don't know the amount they are passing up a major opportunity."
More than 100 paragliders used to take off day by day, shading Pokhara's skies, yet that is down to around 10 flights.
"It wasn't this awful notwithstanding amid the war years," said Pokhara cab driver Govinda Adhikari, alluding to the decade-long Maoist revolt that finished in 2006.
"Our homes are fine, however we are tremor casualties as well
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