India’s G20 Presidency is seen as a step for India to achieve the vision of being a trillion-dollar tourism economy by 2047. Tourism, along with trade and technology, is being envisaged as a sector to accelerate this development. Within the tourism sector, adventure tourism is quoted to be a ‘vehicle for achieving Sustainable Development Goals by 2030’. This article aims to shed light on the requirements and challenges that the field of adventure tourism must address in order to achieve these ambitious goals.