Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The adventure tourism industry. 3. Types of adventure travel. 4. Defining adventure tourism. 5. Mountains and hills: spiritual abodes to tourist destinations. 6. Overview of sport and tourism. 7. Trekking in Nepal. 8. The challenges of destination promotion. 9. Adventure of mountaineering climbing and biking. Bibliography. Index.

Adventure tourism is a complex industry with a wide variety of elements and suppliers. Some of these suppliers are also part of the mainstream tourism industry such as accommodation operators while others are specific to adventure tourism like equipment manufactures. The growth of adventure tourism has been fuelled by the activities of specialist tour operators who focus on adventure tourism. Adventure tourism most exciting and popular among all types of tourism. The book endeavours to introducer eaders to the field of adventure tourism while analyzing the fundamental components of adventure tourism offers key definitions examines the relationship between adventure tourism and other established form of tourism sectors and puts forward various typologies to help the reader understand the nature and scope of adventure tourism. The book is vast in span and kaleidoscopic in nature. It deal with adventures of past to that of today concept and basic issues of adventure type of adventure sports being practiced and evolving trends in India and abroad. The adventure sports have been described on surface on water and in sky to appeal the readers choice. (jacket)