What is extreme tourism?
- Adventure or shock tourism
- Extreme environments
- difficult places
- recent development
- niche market
- physical challenges
- fastest growing form of tourism
The main characteristics of extreme tourism include dangerous landscapes with limited access, difficult climates and areas which are usually sparsely populated. These areas could be coastal areas or cities. They could be holidays including snorkelling, hill walking or mountain climbing. Extreme environments are spread across the globe and cover a wide range of locations including mountains, deserts, rain forests, caves, and ice covered terrain. E.g travelling across the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation in Ukraine.
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