Advantages Of Adventure Tourism

In this urbanization era, most of the people are live in urban areas because there are more job opportunities and provide high standard living compare to rural areas. Therefore, they prefer to stay far away from the wild places. However, nowadays there are much of people going to travel for fun and relaxation during holiday. There are some of the people would like to escape from the urban areas and seeking the adventure destination for relaxation, challenge, learning and exploration. This motivation of seeking and escaping are based on the Iso-Ahola model 1983. This may improved the growth of tourism which affected by many factors such as urbanization increase, reduce working hours, paid vacation and others.
Adventure tourism is a wide range of outdoor leisure activities which commercially operated and involving interaction with natural environment that contains elements of risk because of the outcome is influenced by the participants and touristic …show more content…
Both adventure tourisms have their attractions and target tourists. For high risk adventurous tourism, the most famous tourist attractions are Mount Everest in Nepal which is the highest mountain on Earth and The Matterhorn in Switzerland which is the birthplace of the sport of mountaineering are the places for mountain climbing, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir in India are the popular place for skiing and others popular destinations. On the other hand, the famous tourist attractions for low risk adventurous tourism are Khao Yai National Park which is first national park in Thailand for wildlife viewing and botanical study and waters off Australia, New Zealand, Chesapeake Bay, Ogasawama Islands of Japan and Chichyima Island for whale watching and other famous tourist attractions. Lastly, adventure tourism is one of the best tourism that giving the excitement and relaxation simultaneously for