Skift India Daily: Adventure Tourism to Get Infrastructure Boost
Photo Credit: India's topography is conducive for a variety of adventure activities. Flickr / Shivoham Yoga School
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With long coastlines, towering hills and vast waterbodies, India's topography is conducive for a range of adventure activities, but not at the cost of inadequate vigilance and poor risk assessments.
In a much-needed impetus for adventure tourism, India would be looking to focus on developing infrastructure for this segment, Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy said recently. Reddy said India aims to be the a top adventure tourism destination. The second tourism working group meeting under G20 hosted by India's tourism ministry began with a side event, a panel discussion on "Adventure tourism as a vehicle for achieving sustainable development goals." Delivering the keynote, Reddy highlighted how India's topography is conducive for a variety of adventure activities like camping, paragliding, hot air ballooning, river cruising, sailing, snorkeling and wildlife safari. “We have a 4,349-mile coastline, 70 percent of the Himalayas, about 435 miles of rivers, sand desert and cold desert in Ladakh...all of which provide opportunities for a variety of adventure activities for both domestic and foreign tourists,” Reddy said. Talking about the national adventure tourism strategy framed
