Tour Guide Adventure Travel is a sub-genre of adventure tourism, which can involve traveling or exploration with a certain level of risk, and that might need certain physical and mental exertion. The most famous example is probably Mount Everest, which is extremely high, cold and very remote. The people who reach the top are literally put under an immense amount of physical stress, as their life depends on climbing mountains, for weeks, months and sometimes years. Not everyone can tackle mountains, so this type of adventure travel involves planning carefully, having a lot of equipment, making sure you can live with the conditions (very often you have to carry a tent with you), being able to climb in bad weather and also making sure you can afford the trip. Adventure Travel could take many forms, including rock climbing, skydiving, bungee jumping, motorcycling, mountaineering and walking etc. A further sub-genre is river rafting, where you take a small personal craft (usually a single person) and travel in a canal boat around a river, usually taking part in rapids.
Another form of adventure travel is day tours, which usually involve a short period of time spent at a location. Some popular destinations include Switzerland, New Zealand, South America, Alaska and Hawaii. Day tours can be very interesting and educational, as they allow you to explore something new. Other forms of adventure travel include night tours, where you travel around in a car or van, enjoying the sights and sounds of the area. Adventure tourism has grown massively over the past few years, due to the advent of low cost airlines, and the increasing popularity of things like quad bikes and hiking holidays.
This main article is a brief overview of the topic. This has only been intended as a basic introduction to the topic and should not be used as a reference or starting point for future research. In the main article we provided an outline of what adventure travel is, and briefly looked at some of its main subtopics. We recommended three types of adventure travel, explained below.
