Adventure tourism: understanding the millennial traveler

The aim of this paper is to review the current trends in tourism industry and travel behavior and preferences of Millennials or Generation Y in relation to traveling, and more specifically, adventure travel segment. Furthermore, the obtained data is compared to a recent research on adventure travel tour operators’ perception of Millennials and their travel habits and preferences, in order to determine whether or not these companies understand their customer. The results indicate that the adventure travel tour operators generally understand Millennials, however, they need to stay up to date with the latest technological and social media trends

The Use of Adventure Travel in the Meeting Planning Industry

This study investigates the types of adventure travel activities, ecotourism, soft-adventure, or hard-adventure activities, that meeting planners have used, and if the type of activity used varies by meeting planner type. Surveys were completed by one hundred and eighteen purposefully selected meeting planners. The sample included corporate, association, independent, incentive and other meeting planners from the United States and Canada. Overall, independent planners utilized the most activities across all three adventure travel categories, followed by incentive travel planners. Corporate, association, and other meeting planners did not seem interested in using adventurous activities at meetings

India| Volunteer Travel Adventure

Special Studies Experience, Summer 2016 -- New Delhi, India -- Partner Agencie(s): Kamal Loachan Society; Volunteering Solutions; GoEco.orghttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/134325/1/Poster_Chandra.pd

Perceptions of the teutonic online market and opportunities for adventure travel industry

This article analyses the potential of e-commerce in the niche market of adventure travels. Tourists have been increasingly booking travels worldwide with the help of online platforms instead of the offline and traditional travel agencies. This situation performs an opportunity to maximize the online travel market. Another important trend is related to e-commerce business that has also been increasing as well as the market for adventure tourism. Under this context, the present article analyzed several existent online platforms for booking adventure travels through a survey of 310 questionnaires in order to find out the Teutonic consumer perception about such platforms.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Rebel Outdoors Trips Offer Exciting Summer Options

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Leptospirosis in “Eco-Challenge” Athletes, Malaysian Borneo, 2000

Adventure travel is becoming more popular, increasing the likelihood of contact with unusual pathogens. We investigated an outbreak of leptospirosis in “Eco-Challenge” multisport race athletes to determine illness etiology and implement public health measures. Of 304 athletes, we contacted 189 (62%) from the United States and 26 other countries. Eighty (42%) athletes met our case definition. Twenty-nine (36%) case-patients were hospitalized; none died. Logistic regression showed swimming in the Segama River (relative risk [RR]=2.0; 95% confidence interval [CI]=1.3 to 3.1) to be an independent risk factor. Twenty-six (68%) of 38 case-patients tested positive for leptospiral antibodies. Taking doxycycline before or during the race was protective (RR=0.4, 95% CI=0.2 to 1.2) for the 20 athletes who reported using it. Increased adventure travel may lead to more frequent exposure to leptospires, and preexposure chemoprophylaxis for leptospirosis (200 mg oral doxycycline/week) may decrease illness risk. Efforts are needed to inform adventure travel participants of unique infections such as leptospirosis

STUDI EKSPERIMENTAL DAMPAK MENONTON REALITY SHOW MY TRIP MY ADVENTURE TERHADAP DESTINATION IMAGE, DESTINATION KNOWLEDGE, SIKAP WISATAWAN DAN TRAVEL INTENTION KOTA MAKASSAR

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis dampak menonton reality show My Trip My Adventure terhadap destination image, destination knowledge, sikap wisatawan dan travel intention. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan obyek kota Makassar. Pengolahan data dilakukan dengan menggunakan software SPSS 18 untuk Windows. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan adanya dampak menonton reality show My Trip My Adventure terhadap destination image, destination knowledge, sikap wisatawan dan travel intention dengan sub skala sikap terhadap kota, sikap terhadap budaya dan sikap terhadap populasi pada kota Makassar.&nbsp

A novel review approach on adventure tourism scholarship

As a niche market, adventure tourism has been developing rapidly in many regions and territories, evidenced by increasing number of participants and intensive growth of adventure tourism products (Adventure Travel Trade Association, 2013; Tourism New Zealand, 2013). It has become an important component of the tourism industry in many Western countries (e.g. New Zealand) and is gaining some prominence in domestic tourism in select emerging countries (e.g. China and Brazil). This particular growth of adventure tourism sector in past two decades is closely related to the increase of all types of nature based tourism. Adventure tourism has been strongly likened to outdoor and adventure recreation (Buckley, 2006; Pomfret & Bramwell, 2014; Sung, Morrison, & O'Leary, 1996). Buckley (2006), for example, sees little distinction between the terms adventure tourism, nature tourism, outdoor and adventure recreation in some cases. However, research in adventure tourism has been slight, especially when compared with the large number of other dominant special interest tourism studies (Buckley, 2010). As such, an updated review article on adventure tourism in the tourism context seems essential