Adventure tourism involves exploration with perceived risk and aims to break routine through activities like sports and adventure trips. It targets mostly young tourists but is increasingly encompassing all ages, emphasizing culturally rich and accessible destinations. Key challenges include infrastructure deficits and the need for enhanced marketing and government support to better promote adventure tourism, particularly in regions like India.

1. ADVENTURE
TOURISM

2. THE CONTENT
WHAT IS THE ADVENTURE TOURISM?
This kind of tourism means risks, but always a calculated risk. The main
motivation that promotes people to do this kind of activities is the
boredom, the routine.
It includes the practice of some sports and the adventure trips.
With active sport tourism, they want to set up of a bigger concept, the
active tourism.

3. INTRODUCTION
Adventure Tourism is a type of tourism, involving
exploration or travel with perceived (and possibly actual)
risk, and potentially requiring specialized skills and physical
exertion.

4. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
- It uses natural environment : But participants persecute feeling
sensations not nature’s contemplation, though the two activities aren’t
incompatibles.
- The main motivation (the risk, the adventure) can be combined with
others (fun, nature, landscape).
- Fashion, cultural affinity and accessibility have a big influence on
adventure trips. Cultural affinity and accessibility cause opposite
effects that they would cause normally so less accessibility and cultural
affinity contribute to have more sensation of adventure. It can pass the
same with the price.
- Destination has to be good communicated in international field.

5. - There are zones of little urban planning and usually little traditional.
- The adventure sports’ tourists can use almost all the types of touristic
accommodation: camping, hostels, rural houses, hotels, apartments...
- The adventurous tourist is usually young. Even though more and more
the adventure sports are being adapted for all ages. The most common is
groups of friends around thirties. Even so, lately new trends have been
detected like the case of couples that make their honeymoon a journey
of adventure.
- It is a tourism that in general presents little seasonality. Depending on
the destination and the climatology of this there will be a modality or
another .
- It can be practiced in a lot of places. Even in artificial reproductions.
- This type of tourists almost do not require complementary services.

6. ADVENTURE TRIPS
It is difficult to describe what is a journey of adventure, but all have
four characteristics in common :
1. There are itineraries that bring certain difficulties: descents from
rivers, long appealed across the desert, crossings for seas...
2. The ways of transport used can be not conventional. Canoes, sailing
boat in the crossings by sea, jeeps...
3. The journey has to suppose a certain discomfort. Exoticism does not
have to be confused with adventure.
4. The luggage has to be the possible minimum.

7. ADVENTURE SPORTS
The difference between practicing a conventional sport and
one of adventure is the risk.
There are a lot of adventure sports and many possibilities to
combine them.
Usually we separate adventure sports in three categories:
Terrestrial
Aquatics
Aerial

8. Types of adventure travel
Accessible tourism
There is a trend for developing tourism specifically
for the disabled. Adventure travel for the disabled has
become a $13 billion USD a year industry in North
America.Some adventure travel destinations offer
diverse programs and job opportunities developed
specifically for the disabled.
Cultural tourism
Cultural tourism is the act of travelling to a place to see that
location's culture, including the lifestyle of the people in that
area, the history of those people, their art, architecture,
religions, and other factors that shaped their way of life.

9. Disaster tourism
Disaster tourism is the act of traveling to a disaster area as a matter of
curiosity.The behavior can be a nuisance if it hinders rescue, relief, and
recovery operations. If not done because of pure curiosity, it can be
cataloged as disaster learning.
Ecotourism
Ecotourism is now defined as "responsible travel to natural areas that
conserves the environment, sustains the well-being of the local people,
and involves interpretation and education" (TIES, 2015). Education is
meant to be inclusive of both staff and guests.

10. Extreme tourism
Extreme tourism involves travel to dangerous (extreme) locations or
participation in dangerous events or activities. This form of tourism can
overlap with extreme sport.
Ghetto tourism
Ghetto tourism includes all forms of entertainment — "gangsta rap,"
video games, movies, TV, and other forms that allow consumers to
traffic in the inner city without leaving home.

11. Ethno tourism
Ethno tourism refers to visiting a foreign location for the sake of
observing the indigenous members of its society for the sake of
non-scientific gain. Some extreme forms of this include attempting
to make first contact with tribes that are protected from outside
visitors.
Two controversial issues associated with ethno tourism include
bringing natives into contact with diseases they do not have
immunities for, and the possible degradation or destruction of a
unique culture and/or language.

12. Jungle tourism
Jungle tourism is a rising subcategory of adventure travel defined by
active multifaceted physical means of travel in the jungle regions of the
earth. Although similar in many respects to adventure travel, jungle
tourism pertains specifically to the context of region, culture and
activity. According to the Glossary of Tourism Terms, jungle tours have
become a major component of green tourism in tropical destinations and
are a relatively recent phenomenon of Western international tourism.

13. Some interesting adventure sports :
Paragliding : is a modality of free
fly. The sportman/woman throw
himself from a very steep mountain’s
slope. He or she hang himself from a
ultralight glide. That it have to be
less heavy than the pilot. The landig
is done on foot.
Canyoning : it consists to
decending a precipice following
river’s courses. It combine climb
technics’ with swimming.

14. Rock Climbing : climb up
mountains. We can play it in
artificial facilities, the artificial
training walls.
Rafting : is a descent for fierce
waters’ rivers in a pneumatic boat
with capacity for several people
(places from 6 to 8).

15. Helisky : the sportman/woman
is raised by an helicopter. And
he/she jumps and slides by the
mountainside.
River sky : it the same than
rafting but using a special skis
and a row with double blade.

16. Hydrobob : is descending for
fierce water’s rivers in a
elongated vehicle with
capacity for 4 people.
Hydrospeed : or Hidrosled because it
consits in descends fierce water’s
rivers with a special sled. This vehicle
hold the sport man in the water but
the legs are submerged.
Canoening : flowing in canoe
for the fierce or clam waters of
a river.

17. Bungee jumping : it consists
in throwing of a bridge or
similar (like a crane), clamped
by a rope, which it lends the
jumper suspended on the air.
Trekking and hiking : the difference
between them is that the first carries out
much longer routes. People walk for zones
with high level of difficulties. It stay in
shelters or in improvised campings.

18. Challenges faced by india
Lack of basic infrastructure facilities for trekking, mountaineering
& winter sports.
Lack of tented accommodation facilities for adventure camp sites.
Lack of entrepreneurship and skill among the indigenous
population.
Absence of marketing infrastructure.
Lack of inflow of investible funds from outside the state.
Lack of institutional and governmental support.
Lack of institutional and governmental support.
There is no standardization and certification of safety norms for
certain adventure sports such as bungee jumping.
No financial assistance for procuring equipment for aero space,
Para gliding & hang gliding.

19. How to promote adventure tourism in India ?
 To promote adventure tourism through winter sports more
winter sports projects should be initiated.
 Camping sites may be developed and trekker’s huts may
be put up at high altitudes specially in the hilly regions.
 Mountain hiking should be promoted in the remote
valleys of Ladakh, Kullu, Sikkim & Kumaon Himalayas.
 Cruise boats, launches etc should be provided at wildlife
centers with water frontage to view wildlife from close
quarters.

20. There should be more co-ordination b/w public
and private sector for procuring the equipment for
adventure sports.
Institutional help is also needed to promote
recreational factor among youth.
More of travel packages are required to be
generated at low cost by the travel agents and tour
operators to promote adventure tourism.

21. Credit : CIDROY PAES