Adventure travel and risk-taking in the wild

Adventure travel and risk-taking is tourism that involves exploration or travel with some real or perceived risk, and may call for special skills and physical effort. The lessons answer how risk, preparation, and the wild shape adventure travel, helping readers understand what travelers may seek and how they approach risk. They consider access, remoteness, and the skills and challenges involved.

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   adventure travel and risk-taking · Wikipedia · 4 min read

   Remote adventure travel could be close to big city in terms of straight line distance, but reaching the location requires a long period of time and/or a large amount of effort. Modern adventure travel took off at the end of World War II, with the 1950 French Annapurna expedition and the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition. Some adventure travel destinations offer diverse programs and job opportunities developed specifically for disabled people.

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   The Moderating Roles of Sensation Seeking and Worry among Nature-Based Adventure Tourists - PMC · pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · 39 min read

   Risk is universally accepted as an essential characteristic of adventure tourism, and most empirical research has studied risk as one of the motivations for adventure travel. Adventure tourists may seek a sense of accomplishment, use specific skills, challenge their physical and mental limits, and learn new skills and discover themselves. Yet research on how they cope with risk and prepare before a trip, especially in relation to their attitudes, is still lacking.

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   Into the Wild · Bookshop.org

   Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer recounts his own attempt to climb Devils Thumb in Alaska and argues that McCandless's extreme risk-taking led to his downfall; it also describes his influence from transcendentalism and the need to "revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience."

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