ArmInfo. On May 4, the fundraising platform Indiegogo will start fundraising for the construction of the longest zipline in the world in Armenia. This was announced by Tigran Chibukhchyan, the author of the initiating construction of the Yell Extreme Park zipline project, at a press conference in Yerevan on May 3.
He noted that currently the longest zipline is in Mexico with 2545m of lengths. "We intend to build Zipline in the village of Yenokavan with total length of 2680m, 200-300m above. The flight will take 3 minutes with the speed of 120 km/h", he noted, adding that $ 180 thousand from the 200 necessary is already available.
The Head of the State Committee for Tourism of the Ministry of Economic Development and Investment of Armenia Zarmine Zeytuntsyan stated that Armenia has a great potential for extreme tourism development. In particular, she presented statistical data according to which since 2010 to 2015 the growth of the extreme tourism in the world was 65%. She noted the importance of PR and Marketing in social networks as 80% of extremists find information on this kind of tourism exactly there.
To note, Yell Extreme Park is located in village of Yenokavan of Tavush region of Armenia. It is the first extreme park in Armenia where is possible to go on for extreme sports without being professional sportsman.
