Adventure Tourism and Sports: Issues and Prespectives
Arora, Shyam Lal
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Book ID : 17104
ISBN-10 : 81-7884-294-7 / 8178842947
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7884-294-3 / 9788178842943
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2007
Edition :
Language : English
294p., 23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
This book "Adventure Tourism and Sports: Issues and Perspectives" describes from the daunting Himalayan peaks in the North to te azure coastal areas on the South, from the rain forests of the North East to the coral paradise in the South West, it is variety that is as bewildering as it is diverse. What is so fascinating and so compelling almost to the point of addition in adventure sports? And, yet, these aspects from just a small part of the exhilaration and excitement of the fast developing area, which is increasingly being recognised as adventure tourism. It must be the daunting thrill of dashing along sheer mountain slopes, white water rafting along he dangerous, roaring waters of great services, hand gliding over enormously deep mountain gorges and climbing serrated glaciers. Its vast geographical diversity and the pristine nature of its facilities enables all tastes to be catered for, from the gentlest to the fast paced and for people of every level of competence-the beginner and the expert.
