Potentials and problems of adventure tourism a study of Rishikesh Pandey Avanendu Parashar*, Dr. Pandey Monika** *Research Scholar-Centre for Tourism, Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalay, Haridwar, India **Assistant Professor, Dept. of Indian Culture & Tourism, Dev Sanskriti Vishwavidyalay, Haridwar, India. Email id: avan44@rediffmail.com, Mob: 9917905678/9917905668 Online published on 4 May, 2017. Abstract Adventure tourism is the very popular in India, it's hilly areas covered with so many greenery areas and the places have great mountain peaks, rivers, lakes, birds and so many other unique and beautiful things exist in Indian hilly states one of them is Uttarakhand and it small town is Rishikesh. it is whole as India level has iconic status in field of adventure tourism. Rishikesh, a small place but it has so many opportunities of tourism. Rishikesh is known as the ‘Yoga Capital of India’ and secondly it is also known as the adventure capital of India. No, doubt it is a place of very great adventures, mainly the white water Rafting and Bungy Jumping. Rishikesh has so many potentials of adventure tourism beyond the only white water rafting and bungy jumping. Rishikesh has so many potentials related to adventure tourism like rock climbing, rappling, valley crossing, hot air ballooning, camping and many more, but from all good things there is also problems related to adventure tourism. The main are the trash directly throw in Ganga river, sewage drainage, lack of awareness and fast flowing river etc. The present theoretical paper gives the positive as well as negative impact of adventure tourism in Rishikesh. After that it can be explain easily that how to develop more adventure in Rishikesh and how to face problems of adventure tourism in Rishikes? Top Keywords Adventure, white water rafting, Rishikesh, Potentials, bungy jumping. Top |