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ADVENTURE
TOURISM
EXPERIENCES
The stimulation and intensity associated with
adventure contributes to removing the experience
from the routine of everyday life. Exotic
surroundings, new activities, experiences beyond
anything one has ever experienced contributes to a
sense of escapism. Adventure is a chance to escape
the everyday concerns of life. Imagine being on top
of Mount Everest. Would you be thinking of anything
else but just being there? Enjoying the rapture of
having achieved such a feat, the wondrous view and
the elation of breaking your boundaries? No wonder
adventure is so popular.
The term ‘Adventure Tourism’ can represent
many kinds of experience, and an almost infinite
range of tourism situations. What they all share is a
participant’s sense of excitement and adventure, and
of entering an experience or series of experiences
that will take them out of urban areas into more
natural and less obviously regulated environments.
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