Journal of Tourism & Hospitality
Open Access

Abstract

Adventure Tourism in Meghalaya

Saibal Kumar Saha, Tushar Chandra Babai and Sangita Saha

The world is observing fast growth in the field of adventure sports due to the wide range of scope it provides to the tourists. There is still a need to study and understand the core importance of this subject to better understand the customers’ taste and preference. The research tries importance of adventure tourism in Khasi hills of Meghalaya. Every effort was made to acquire relevant data from the respondents and get a clear picture of adventure tourism in Khasi hills. This research shows that 88% of the tourist prefers to undertake adventure activities in Meghalaya. Data also shows that there have been various problems that have hindered tourists to reach important tourist destinations like problem of transportation and lack of knowledge about the destinations. The importance of trekking in Meghalaya as an important adventure tourism activity is really commendable, almost 50% of the respondent likes to participate trekking in Meghalaya.