Adventure travel is a kind of tourism, involving exploration or travel to remote, exotic & possibly hostile areas. Adventure tourism is quickly growing in popularity, as tourists seek different kinds of holidays. According to the U.S. based Adventure Travel Trade Association, adventure travel may be any tourist activity, including six of the following five parts: a physical activity, a cultural exchange or interaction & 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 hard work & involve some degree of risk (actual or perceived) and/or physical danger. This may include activities such as mountaineering, trekking, bungee leaping, mountain biking, rafting, zip-lining & rock climbing. Some obscure forms of adventure travel include catastrophe & ghetto tourism.[1] Other rising forms of adventure travel include social & jungle tourism.

Access to cheap consumer know-how, with respect to Global Positioning Systems, flashpacking, social networking & photography, have increased the worldwide interest in adventure travel. The interest in independent adventure travel has also increased as more specialist travel sites emerge offering historicallyin the past niche locations & 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 The united states. Some adventure travel destinations offer diverse programs and job opportunities developed specifically for the disabled

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.

Jungle tourism:


Jungle 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.

Independent Travel:


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.