Adventure travel is a type of tourism , involving exploration or travel with a certain degree of risk (real or perceived), and which may require special skills and physical exertion. In the United States, adventure tourism has seen growth in late 20th and early 21st century as tourists seek out-of-the-ordinary or "roads less traveled" vacations, but lack of a clear operational definition has hampered measurement of market size and growth. According to the U.S.-based Adventure Travel Trade Association, adventure travel may be any tourist activity that includes physical activity, a cultural exchange, and connection with outdoor activities and nature .
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57-421: A greater goal, such as the pursuit of knowledge that can only be obtained by such activities. Adventurous experiences create psychological arousal , which can be interpreted as negative (e.g. fear ) or positive (e.g. flow ). For some people, adventure becomes a major pursuit in and of itself. According to adventurer André Malraux , in his Man's Fate (1933), "If a man is not ready to risk his life, where
76-563: A travel experience. There is a trend for developing tourism specifically for the disabled. Adventure travel for the disabled has become a US$ 13 billion a year industry in North America . Some adventure travel destinations offer diverse programs and job opportunities developed specifically for the disabled . Extreme tourism involves travel to dangerous ( extreme ) locations or participation in dangerous events or activities. This form of tourism can overlap with extreme sport . Jungle tourism
95-496: A wide variety of literary genres. Many adventure games ( text and graphic ) are designed for a single player, since this emphasis on story and character makes multi-player design difficult. From ancient times, travelers and explorers have written about their adventures. Journals which became best-sellers in their day were written, such as Marco Polo 's journal The Travels of Marco Polo or Mark Twain 's Roughing It . Others were personal journals, only later published, such as
114-513: Is a subcategory of adventure travel defined by active multifaceted physical means of travel in the jungle regions of the earth. 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 or overlanding refers to an overland journey – perhaps originating with Marco Polo's first overland expedition in
133-478: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Adventure An adventure is an exciting experience or undertaking that is typically bold, sometimes risky . Adventures may be activities with danger such as traveling , exploring , skydiving , mountain climbing , scuba diving , river rafting , or other extreme sports . Adventures are often undertaken to create psychological arousal or in order to achieve
152-852: Is his dignity?" Similarly, Helen Keller stated that "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." Outdoor adventurous activities are typically undertaken for the purposes of recreation or excitement : examples are adventure racing and adventure tourism . Adventurous activities can also lead to gains in knowledge, such as those undertaken by explorers and pioneers – the British adventurer Jason Lewis , for example, uses adventures to draw global sustainability lessons from living within finite environmental constraints on expeditions to share with schoolchildren. Adventure education intentionally uses challenging experiences for learning . Author Jon Levy suggests that an experience should meet several criteria to be considered an adventure: Some of
171-628: The Colorado River in 1869. Shortly after, two key institutions were formed, including the National Geographic Society and the Explorers Club , which continue to support adventure travel. At the end of World War II, modern adventure began to take off, with 1950 French Annapurna expedition and the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition . Today, it remains a niche of travel and a fast-changing sector with new variants of activities for
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209-518: The 13th century from Venice to the Mongolian 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 ),
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#1733085846367228-543: 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. Many of the older traditional routes are still active, along with newer routes like Iceland to South Africa overland and Central Asian post soviet states. Scuba diving is a sport in which participants explore underwater places while inhaling compressed air from tanks. Scuba diving
247-530: The idea of a quest: the hero goes off in pursuit of a reward, whether it be a skill, prize, treasure, or perhaps the safety of a person. On the way, the hero must overcome various obstacles to obtain their reward. In video game culture , an adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle solving . The genre 's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative -based media, literature and film , encompassing
266-510: The journals of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark or Captain James Cook 's journals. There are also books written by those not directly a part of the adventure in question, such as The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe or books written by those participating in the adventure but in a format other than that of a journal, such as Conquistadors of the Useless by Lionel Terray . Documentaries often use
285-531: The oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure, such as Homer 's Odyssey . The knight errant was the form the "adventure seeker" character took in the Late Middle Ages . Adventure fiction exhibits these "protagonist on adventurous journey" characteristics, as do many popular feature films , such as Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark . Adventure books may have
304-401: The success rate of females is currently higher than that of males Since ancient times, humans have traveled in search for food and skills of survival , but have also engaged in adventurous travel, in explorations of sea lanes , a destination, or even a new country. Adventurer travelers began to push to the limits, with the mountaineering of Matterhorn in 1865 and the river rafting on
323-1189: The theme of adventure as well. There are many sports classified as adventure sports, due to their inherent danger and excitement. Some of these include mountain climbing , skydiving , or other extreme sports . Adventure travel Adventure tourists may have the motivation to achieve mental states characterized as rush or flow , resulting from stepping outside their comfort zone . This may be from experiencing culture shock or by performing acts requiring significant effort and involve some degree of risk, real or perceived, or physical danger. This may include activities such as mountaineering , trekking , bungee jumping , mountain biking , cycling , canoeing , scuba diving , rafting , kayaking , zip-lining , paragliding , hiking , exploring , Geocaching , canyoneering , sandboarding , caving and rock climbing . Some obscure forms of adventure travel include disaster and ghetto tourism . 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
342-463: The theme of the hero or main character going to face the wilderness or Mother Nature . Examples include books such as Hatchet or My Side of the Mountain . These books are less about "questing", such as in mythology or other adventure novels, but more about surviving on their own, living off the land, gaining new experiences, and becoming closer to the natural world. Many adventures are based on
361-456: The worldwide interest in adventure travel. The interest in independent adventure travel has also increased as more specialist travel websites emerge offering previously niche locations and sports. Adventure sports tourism has traditionally been dominated by men. Although women's participation has grown, the gender gap is still pronounced in terms of quantitative engagement in these forms of sport tourism. Yet, in competitive adventure sport tourism,
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