Dr. Shree Prasad Bhattarai

Dr. Shree Prasad Bhattarai, Head of the Department of Management at LBU, is a hospitality expert with a PhD in Management and global academic exposure across 25+ countries. He integrates Buddhist values with modern business education, promoting ethical leadership and innovation.

Dynamic tourism and hospitality executive, academic leader, and strategic policy advocate with extensive experience in tourism development, higher education leadership, hospitality management, curriculum innovation, and sustainable destination planning. Proven expertise in leading academic institutions, developing tourism and hospitality ecosystems, strengthening industry-academia partnerships, and promoting Nepal’s global tourism identity through responsible and sustainable tourism frameworks.

Recognized for interdisciplinary leadership across tourism policy, destination branding, Buddhist tourism, hospitality education, tourism entrepreneurship, experiential learning systems, and international collaboration. Demonstrated capability in strategic planning, institutional management, conference coordination, workforce development, tourism diplomacy, and stakeholder engagement.

Possesses broad international exposure across Europe and Asia through academic conferences, tourism observation, hospitality systems exposure, research collaboration, and institutional networking. Adept at integrating sustainability, innovation, digital transformation, and ethical leadership into tourism and hospitality systems.

Head of Department of Management / Assistant Professor

1.  Leading tourism and hospitality academic planning, policy innovation, and implementation.
2.  Serving as the Subject Committee Head of Hospitality and Tourism and a member of the Management Courses Subject Committee.
3.  Developed Nepal’s first hospitality-integrated modality education model, where students study within five-star hotel environments while working up to 30 hours per week with stipend support.
4. Introduced and implemented the Learn–Earn–Certify model, designed to provide students with approximately three-and-a-half years of professional industry experience experience during their academic journey.
5. Led initiatives to minimize the gap between academia and the hospitality industry through work-based learning systems inspired by PhD research findings.
6. Developed vocational, short-term, and skill-based curricula in hospitality, tourism, management, and service industries.
7. Coordinated the establishment and operational strengthening of the Department of Management through innovative academic and institutional initiatives.
8. Successfully piloted and expanded market-driven programs, including BHTM, BTTM, BBA-AI, MBA-HM, and other hospitality and management-related courses.
9. Introduced Computer-Based Test (CBT) semester examination systems in formal academic degree programs to modernize assessment practices.
10. Integrated Buddhist philosophy, ethical leadership, and mindfulness perspectives into tourism, hospitality, and management education.
11. Leading curriculum development and industry-integrated academic reforms.