Adventure tourism
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Adventure tourism is a type of niche tourism involving exploration or travel to remote areas, where the traveler should expect the unexpected. Adventure tourism is rapidly growing in popularity as tourists seek unusual holidays, different from the typical beach vacation.
Adventure tourism typically involves traveling into remote, inaccessible and possibly hostile areas. It may include the performance of acts that require significant effort and grit and may also involve some degree of risk.
Adventure Tourism can take many forms with the increase in numbers of people with disabilities around the World and recent veterans from Wars have opened the doors to Adventure Travel for the Disabled. Albeit this may not be in exotic areas some tourism areas that have been developing include Australia, USA and Canada. Whistler and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada have been taking the lead with the 2010 Paralympics coming up fast. Adapting to the needs of the Disabled to attract a$ 13 billion dollar[1] a year industry in North America alone.
According to the (U.S.-based) global Adventure Travel Trade Association, "adventure travel" may be any tourist activity including two of the following three components: a physical activity, a cultural exchange or interaction, and engagement with nature.
Mountaineering expeditions, trekking, bungee jumping, rafting and rock climbing are frequently cited as an examples of adventure tourism.
[edit] References
- ^ Stan Hagen - Tourism Minister of British Columbia
[edit] Further Reading
"Adventure Tourism" by R. Buckley (2006) Published by CABI, Wallingford, UK.
[edit] See also
- Adventure recreation
- Mountaineering
- Outdoor education
- Rafting
- River trekking
- Urban Exploration
- Robert Young Pelton
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