Thrill Tourism in Pokhara

Abstract

“Thrill Tourism in Pokhara: A case study of Zip-Flyer” is a study of Adventure tourism is to clarify about thrillication of adventure sports. Since the tourism is the major factor for generating economic part of Nepal as the direct contribution of Nepal‟s Travel and Tourism to GDP in 2014 was 4.3 percent. This study is focused on the market and nature of tourist in the adventure tourism, hence this study will be beneficial to understand and identify market survey and nature of tourist in the adventure tourism as well as demographic characteristics. Similarly, this study will attempt to diagnose the general perception of enterprises and tourist towards adventure tourism and will attempt to find out the required improvement for the betterment for adventure tourism. The present study has been carried out in Sarangkot and HemjaVDC of Pokhara. The mai purpose of the study is to compare between the adventure tourist and tourist in general with the main objective of identifying the current issues and problems regarding zip-flyer, perception of tourist towards the Zip- Flyer Pokhara as tourist destination, to analyze the socio-economic impact from the zip-flyer, to examine safety measure and specially to examine zip-flyer as thrilling. The sample of 30 respondents was selected in Highgound Adventure Nepal through the convenient sampling, as per the study most of the tourist said that the zip-flyer Pokhara is more thrillication rather than other adventure sports. From the present study, it showed that Adventure tourism does not interest only the youth market but spans over a broad range of people and age groups. It has been found that adventure tourist make their holiday choices per their lifestyles and not based primarily good on their ages. Thus, a physically active pensioner can participate zip-flyer, while a young graduate, for example, may prefer a relaxing holiday with friends. It has been recorded by tour operators that the average age of adventure travelers is, rather surprisingly, between 40 and 45 years old. This supports the idea that lifestyle, rather than age, influences a tourist holidays decision.