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Topic: Adventure Tourism
Title: What are the factors that affects tourist from choosing their destination when it comes to adventure tourism nowadays?
Variance: Kinds of destination Personality of the tourist Different factors affecting their decision

Adventure tourism that combines physical activity, cultural exchange, or interaction and an engagement with nature, creates some excitement by stepping out of your comfort zone requires significant physical or mental effort may involve some kind of risk, be it real or perceived expectations vary depending on participants level of experience may have an element of physical danger mountaineering, trekking, walking, bungee jumping rock climbing, white water rafting, kayaking, fishing. Adventure can be broken into 2 parts soft adventure and hard adventure. Soft Adventure a travel experience that goes beyond the typical tourist itinerary is rewarding for the spirit and the mind is safe and without excessive physical demands, examples of soft adventure: camping, walking on gradually changing terrain, Biking. Hard Adventure is a travel experience that has more physical challenge has a higher element of risk is rewarding to the spirit pushes people outside of the comfort zone, examples of hard adventure: Mountaineering, White water rafting/kayaking, mountain biking. Adventure tourism requires higher physical fitness; participant needs to push their self from their comfort zone. And adventure tourism is often expensive because of the equipment and the area where the adventure tourism is held. And woman prefers adventure tourism than men because women are more adventurous and willing to do something new nowadays.

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1. ^ "Citypaper online". Retrieved 2007-11-10.
2. ^ "The Flashpacker: A New Breed of Traveler". Hotel Travel News. 2006-03-24. Retrieved 2007-11-07.
3. ^ The Development of Social Network Analysis Vancouver: Empirical Press.
4. ^ Stan Hagen -



References: 2.    ^ "The Flashpacker: A New Breed of Traveler". Hotel Travel News. 2006-03-24. Retrieved 2007-11-07. 4.    ^ Stan Hagen - Tourism Minister of British Columbia 5.    ^ The Equity: "Esprit rafting to be featured in commercial", Wednesday, May 14th, 2008, print edition 6.    ^ Vidal, John (2009-07-25). "Are we here just for your amusement?". The Guardian (London). Butler, R. W. 1980 The Concept of a Tourist Area Cycle of Evolution: Implications for Management of Resources. The Canadian Geographer 24(1):5 -12.

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