Andhra’s Sports Festival

The state of Andhra Pradesh organized an Aero Sports Festival at the NTR Adventure Park, Sitampeta. It was from 13th to 15th January. Almost 6,000 tourists attended the festival. The event was organized by the Integrated Tribal Development Agency (ITDA) Sitampeta of Srikakulam district in association with Freakouts Adventure Solutions.

The event was mainly organized to promote adventure tourism. To imbue the enthusiasm among people the ticket price was kept within an affordable range of Rs. 20 to Rs. 2000. The festival had hot air balloon, para monitoring, and parasailing among other attractions. This is a first of its kind in the state of Andhra Pradesh. And in its first year only it attracted as many as 6000 tourists. Several other states of India organize adventure sports like in 2015 Himachal Pradesh hosted the Paragliding World Cup. This kind of eventswill boost the tourism department of the state.

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