Adventure tourism can include risky activities.
Adventure tourism is the tourist activity that involves a trip to a remote area or that includes a plan where unexpected events may occur. It can be said that adventure tourism or adventure tourism is a type of tourism, like cultural tourism or ecological tourism .
It should be noted that the set of activities that people carry out during their trips and stays in places that are different from their usual environment is known as tourism . Leisure, business and health are some of the motivations that can lead a subject to carry out a tourist activity. Adventure , on the other hand, is a strange event, a contingency or a risky undertaking with an uncertain outcome.
Before moving forward with the definition, it is interesting to establish the etymological origin of the two main words that make it up. In this sense, it must be said that both emanate from Latin: tourism derives from the word tornus , which can be translated as "movement or return" ; and adventure comes from adventure , which is equivalent to "the things that are to come."
Characteristics of adventure tourism
The easiest way to understand adventure tourism is as opposed to conventional tourism. If the majority of travelers tend to visit big cities or rest on the beach, adventure tourists opt for more active vacations , which include extreme sports or explorations in nature .
There is a wide variety of proposals when it comes to practicing adventure tourism. However, among the most frequent alternatives in this regard are cycle tourism , rural tourism and hiking . This last activity is, without a doubt, one of the ones that has had the most prominence and development in recent years because it combines three aspects: culture, sport and the environment.
Sport is usually part of adventure tourism.
Different modalities
There are many towns in the world that already offer their visitors interesting hiking routes . In this way, they manage to catch them and make them, at the same time, discover corners of unparalleled natural beauty that have unique characteristics and peculiarities.
In the case of rural tourism, it should be noted that it is also usually adventure because it allows activities such as quad routes, all-terrain vehicle tours and even hiking.
The combination of trekking or hiking with camping (accommodation in a tent or tent ) is a type of adventure tourism. Other options include activities such as rafting , surfing , horseback riding or mountaineering .
Adventure tourism and adventure sports
It should be noted that, sometimes, what is adventure tourism is often confused with adventure sports . However, the difference is very clear: to be able to carry out the second activity it is necessary to have experience and training in it while for the first it is not.
It is important to keep in mind that adventure tourism seeks leisure, unlike adventure sports , which tend towards competition and require more demanding training.