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Bhutan is known for its approach to high-value, low-volume tourism development.Bhutan has been cited as an example of a best case approach to sustainable tourism.However, like other landlocked countries, Bhutan relies heavily on imported goods from neighbouring countries such as India and Thailand, leading to significant economic leakages. This raises the question of how economically sustainable Bhutan's tourism is. This research employs a mixed microeconomic and macroeconomic analysis of linkages and leakages between different sectors in the Bhutanese tourism industry, in particular hotels and agriculture to ascertain the volume and value of these leakages.

Energy consumption and conservation is one of the important topics in Energy Education, whereby students are required to understand the factors of energy consumption leading to promote students' awareness on saving energy in residence. Moreover, inquiry-based learning strategy can be used to encourage students' learning in the topic. Although, several researchers studied on how to use digital games to improve understand the topic. However, a few studies have been conducted to investigate what the gender differences in playing and learning energy game-based learning are. In this vein, this paper address this issue by investigating the gender differences in learning achievement and energy-saving awareness through a digital game based on inquiry-based learning called Residence Energy Saving Battle (RES-battle). An experiment has been conducted on a secondary school physics course. The experimental results from 129 students indicate that the RES-battle can decrease the difference between female and male learning achievements reasonably and energy-saving awareness. This suggests a need to develop the game that can provide the opportunities for interaction on game screen and also with other students.

Merak-Sakteng is a remote area of Bhutan, which is targeted for development of tourism owing to the unique culture and way of life of the semi-nomadic local 'Brokpa' people, whose livelihoods depend on herding yaks and sheep. These livestock enter forests where local residents and government see their grazing as threatening their crops and causing environmental degradation. The seminomadic life centred on livestock, which has long been essential to Brokpa culture and economy, thus comes under threat. The opening of Merak-Sakteng to tourism is intended to address this conflict by lessening the Brokpas' economic dependence on livestock. This paper reports on research into the potential of tourism to transform this ethnic minority's economic way of life through the introduction of tourism into the local livelihood mix. Sustainable livelihoods issues are investigated through a consideration of both economic and sociocultural aspects of the local way of life, based on observation, and the findings of a survey of local people, semi-structured interviews with village leaders and government officials concerning development of the area. The survey found that despite land-use conflicts and limited grazing land, Brokpas still aspired to spend money gained from tourism on purchasing more yaks, which may escalate land-use conflicts and threaten environmental sustainability.

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