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Adventure travel is a type of tourism, involving exploration or travel to remote, exotic and
possibly hostile areas.. 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
tourism.[1]
Other rising forms of adventure travel include social and jungle
tourism.
Access to inexpensive consumer technology, with respect to Global Positioning Systems,
flashpacking, social networking and photography, have
increased the worldwide interest in adventure travel.[2][3] The
interest in independent adventure travel has also increased as more
specialist travel websites emerge offering previously niche
locations and sports.
Types
of Adventure Travel
Accessible
tourism
There is a trend for developing tourism specifically for the
disabled. Adventure travel for the disabled has become a $13
billion USD a year industry in North America.[4] Some
adventure travel destinations offer diverse programs and job
opportunities developed specifically for the disabled.[5]
Disaster
Tourism
Disaster tourism is the act of traveling to a disaster area as a
matter of curiosity. The behavior can be a nuisance if it hinders
rescue, relief, and recovery operations. If not done because of
pure curiosity, it can be cataloged as disaster learning.
Ethno
Tourism
Ethno tourism refers to visiting a foreign location for the sake
of observing the indigenous members of its society for the sake of
non-scientific gain. Some extreme forms of this include attempting
to make first contact with tribes that are protected from outside
visitors.
Two controversial issues associated with ethno tourism include
bringing natives into contact with diseases they do not have
immunities for, and the possible degradation or destruction of a
unique culture and/or language.[6]
Ghetto
Tourism
Main article:
Ghetto
tourismGhetto tourism refers to the growing popularity of tourism in
ghettos.
Jungle
Tourism
Main article:
Jungle
tourismJungle tourism is a rising subcategory of adventure travel
defined by active multifaceted physical means of travel in the
jungle regions of the earth. Although similar in many respects to
adventure travel, jungle tourism pertains specifically to the
context of region, culture and activity. According to the Glossary
of Tourism Terms, jungle tours have become a major component of
green tourism in tropical destinations and are a relatively recent
phenomenon of Western international tourism.
Overland
Travel
Overland travel or overlanding refers to an "overland journey" -
perhaps originating with Marco Polo's first overland expedition in
the 13th century from Venice to the Chinese court of Kublai Khan.
Today overlanding is a form of extended adventure holiday,
embarking on a long journey, often in a group. Overland companies
provide a converted truck or a bus plus a tour leader, and the
group travels together overland for a period of weeks or
months.
Since the 1960s overlanding has been a popular means of travel
between destinations across Africa, Europe, Asia (particularly
India), the Americas and Australia. The "Hippie trail" of the 60s
and 70s saw thousands of young westerners travelling through the
Middle East to India and Nepal.
Urban
Exploration
Urban exploration (often shortened as urbex or UE) is the
examination of the normally unseen or off-limits parts of urban
areas or industrial facilities. Urban exploration is also commonly
referred to as infiltration, although some people consider
infiltration to be more closely associated with the exploration of
active or inhabited sites. It may also be referred to as "draining"
(when exploring drains) "urban spelunking", "urban caving", or
"building hacking".
The nature of this activity presents various risks, including
both physical danger and the possibility of arrest and punishment.
Many, but not all, of the activities associated with urban
exploration could be considered trespassing or other violations of
local or regional laws.
See also
References
Further
reading
- "Adventure Tourism" by R. Buckley (2006) Published by CABI,
Wallingford, UK.
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