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Adventure travel is a type of tourism involving exploration or travel to remote, exotic and possibly hostile areas, where the traveler should "expect the unexpected". Adventure tourism is rapidly growing in popularity as tourists seek different kinds of vacations. According to the U.S.-based Adventure Travel Trade Association, "adventure travel" may be any tourist activity including two of the following three components: a physical activity, a cultural exchange or interaction, and engagement with nature.

Adventure tourism gains much of its excitement by allowing its participants to step outside of their comfort zone. This may be from experiencing culture shock, or through the performance of acts that require significant effort and involve some degree of risk (real or perceived) and/or physical danger. This may include activities such as mountaineering, trekking, bungee jumping, mountain biking, rafting, zip-lining and rock climbing.

Some obscure forms of adventure travel include disaster and ghetto tourism^[1].

Tour operators, travel agencies & retailers

Many organizations and companies worldwide cater to adventure clientèle. Some of these include GAP Adventures, Mountain Equipment Co-op and Rainforest Expeditions.

Media

Outpost magazine is a Canadian adventure travel magazine.

Adventure Travel for the Disabled

With the trend of increasing accessibility available to disabled persons around the world, some tourism areas are developing adventure tourism specifically for the disabled. Whistler, British Columbia and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada have been taking the lead with the 2010 Paralympics. Adventure travel for the disabled has become a $13 billion USD^[2] a year industry in North America.

References

^ "Citypaper online". Retrieved 2007-11-10.
^ Stan Hagen - Tourism Minister of British Columbia

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	Adventure tourism gains much of its excitement by allowing its participants to step outside of their [[comfort zone]]. This may be from experiencing [[culture shock]], or through the performance of acts that require significant effort and involve some degree of risk (real or perceived) and/or physical danger. This may include activities such as [[mountaineering]], [[trekking]], [[bungee jumping]], [[mountain biking]], [[rafting]], [[zip-line\|zip-lining]] and [[rock climbing]].		Adventure tourism gains much of its excitement by allowing its participants to step outside of their [[comfort zone]]. This may be from experiencing [[culture shock]], or through the performance of acts that require significant effort and involve some degree of risk (real or perceived) and/or physical danger. This may include activities such as [[mountaineering]], [[trekking]], [[bungee jumping]], [[mountain biking]], [[rafting]], [[zip-line\|zip-lining]] and [[rock climbing]].