Karna Shakya (Nepali: कर्ण शाक्य) (born April 2, 1943) is a Nepalese environmentalist, conservationist, hotel entrepreneur, writer and philanthropist.

[4][5] He resigned from his government job, entered the tourism business in 1970, and now owns a chain of eco-friendly hotels in major touristic cities like Kathmandu, Pokhara, chitwan and Lumbini.

[4][6] He received special conservation training in forest administration in Canberra Australia under the Colombo Plan and Nature Recreation Management course in different National Parks in America under the Department of Interior, Canada and USA.

While working in the department of forest, he traveled to remote areas such as Dolpa, Mustang, Manang, Jomsom, Humla and Jumla in the Northern regions of Nepal.

[7] He studied the pygmy hog, the smallest wild boar, in the jungle of Assam and Sundar Kundar forest in East Nepal.

[10][11][12] After he resigned from the Forestry Department, helped his brother Basanta Bahadur Sakya open a 13-room Kathmandu Guest House in Thamel , which was very successful.

[citation needed] His company KGH Group[13] operates Kathmandu Guest House in Thamel, Park Village in Budhanilkhantha,[14] Shakya is known as a father of tourism in Nepal.

In 2000, when the Maoist movement was escalating, many entrepreneurs and businessmen left the country and migrated abroad due to anxiety and skepticism, but Shakya decided to live in Nepal and invest in tourism.

[citation needed] Based on global warming and climate change, he wrote a script for a futuristic movie in August 2009, New York Water City (NYWC).