ADVENTURE

Adventure holiday is a phrase that means different things to different people.

Adventure holiday  is a type of niche tourism, involving exploration or travel with a certain degree of risk (real or perceived), and which may require special skills and physical exertion. Adventure holiday may be any tourist activity that includes physical activity, a cultural exchange, and connection with nature.

Adventure tourists may have the motivation to achieve mental states characterized as rush or flow,resulting from stepping outside their comfort zone. This may be from experiencing culture shock or by performing acts requiring significant effort and involve some degree of risk, real or perceived, or physical danger. This may include activities such as mountaineering, trekking, bungee jumping, mountain biking, cycling, canoeing, scuba diving, rafting, kayaking, ziplining, paragliding, hiking, exploring, canyoneering, caving and rock climbing.

Some obscure forms of adventure travel include disaster and ghetto tourism. Other rising forms of adventure travel include social and jungle tourism.