Sports Tourism / സ്പോർട്സ് ടൂറിസം

Foreword It is said  Kerala is God’s own country. Forests hills beaches back waters and a lot more to attract tourists. Other than enjoying natural beauty and well known local hospitality of Kerala  the new generation  is looking at adventure sports like  pedaling kayak and canoe boats in back waters riding cycles para gliding kite flying rock climbing in the state. All these are essential to sports tourism . As far as Kerala is concerned it has everything except snow. Hence all other natural facilities can be explored and developed further. Future tourism  will focus on  the nature which is in abundance in Kerala. Sanil in fact looks in to it seriously. He describes different  adventure sports  suited for different places in Kerala.I am happy to see that he talks about the Special Area Games programme initiated by me for SAI in 1980s.Of course Kerala can be a  special area  for nature and adventure  tourism in India. I wish Sanil with best wishes for the success of his book. B. V.P. Rao  IAS ( retd) Hyderabad