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Adventure travel is a type of tourism involving exploration or travel to remote, exotic and possibly hostile areas, where the traveler should "expect the unexpected". Adventure tourism is rapidly growing in popularity as tourists seek different kinds of vacations. According to the U.S.-based 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.
Adventure tourism gains much of its excitement by allowing its participants to step outside of their comfort zone. This may be from experiencing culture shock, or through the performance of acts that require significant effort and involve some degree of risk (real or perceived) and/or physical danger. This may include activities such as mountaineering, trekking, bungee jumping, mountain biking, rafting, zip-lining and rock climbing. Some obscure forms of adventure travel include disaster and ghetto tourism1. Other rising forms of adventure travel include social and jungle tourism.
Access to inexpensive consumer technology with respect to navigation systems, flashpacking2, social networking3 and photography have increased the worldwide interest in adventure travel.
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Tour operators, travel agencies & retailers
Many organizations and companies worldwide cater to adventure clientèle. Some geographic regions are promoted by both private and public agencies as adventure travel destinations such as the Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica one of the worldwide leaders.
Disabled
With the trend of increasing accessible tourism available to disabled persons around the world, some tourism areas are developing adventure tourism specifically for the disabled. Whistler, British Columbia and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada have been taking the lead with the 2010 Paralympics. Adventure travel for the disabled has become a $13 billion USD4 a year industry in North America.
Notable disabled adventurers include Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind person to climb Mt. Everest; Casey Pieretti, an amputee skater; and Caroline Walsh, founder of the Access to Marine Conservation for All International.
Some adventure travel destinations offer diverse programs and job opportunities developed specifically for the differently abled5. Esprit Rafting, located in Pontiac Regional County Municipality in Quebec, Canada designs rafting trips for people with spinal cord damage.
Media
Some prominent adventure travel personalities, media sources and organizations include:
- Adventure Travel Magazine, a UK based adventure travel magazine published since 1995
- Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, a program on the Travel Channel that focuses on the adventure of authentic food and experiences in various locales.
- Nat Geo Adventure, a subscription TV channel part of National Geographic Channels International.
- National Geographic Adventure, a magazine affiliated with the National Geographic Society.
- Outpost, a Canadian adventure travel magazine.
- "Whatever You Do, Don't Run" is a collection of true stories from Peter Allison, who worked as a safari guide in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia.
References
- ^ "Citypaper online". Retrieved on 2007-11-10.
- ^ "The Flashpacker: A New Breed of Traveler", Hotel Travel News (2006-03-24). Retrieved on 7 November 2007.
- ^ The Development of Social Network Analysis Vancouver: Empirical Press.
- ^ Stan Hagen - Tourism Minister of British Columbia
- ^ The Equity: "Esprit rafting to be featured in commercial", Wednesday, May 14th, 2008, print edition
Further reading
- "Adventure Tourism" by R. Buckley (2006) Published by CABI, Wallingford, UK.
See also
- Adventure recreation
- Mountain Biking
- Powered Parachutes
- Mountaineering
- Outdoor education
- Rafting
- River trekking
- Urban Exploration
- Jungle tourism
- Travel journal
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