Adventure tourism is a type of tourism involving exploration or travel to more remote areas where the traveler can experience the unexpected. Adventure tourism is rapidly growing in popularity as more tourists seek unusual vacations which are different from the typical sightseeing or beach vacation.

Adventure tourism typically involves traveling into a more remote or area that is inaccessible by common means, possibly even hostile areas. The travel may include the performance of activities that require significant strength and effort and grit and may also involve some degree of risk.

According to the 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. Mountaineering expeditions, trekking, bungee jumping, white water rafting and rock climbing are a few of the most common examples of adventure tourism.

Adventure tourism can take many forms with the increase in numbers of people with disabilities around the world and recent veterans from wars have opened the doors to adventure travel for the disabled. Although adventure travel for the disabled may not be in exotic areas, some tourism areas that have been developing include Australia, USA and Canada. Whistler and Vancouver British Columbia, Canada taking the lead with the 2010 Paralympics.

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