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Significant profile differences among male and female adventure tourists in Pretoria, South Africa
Different adventure activities/experiences evolve because individuals, their motives, behaviours, and
experiences differ and change over time. This notion illustrates the broad nature of adventure tourism and
its links with other forms of tourism. In turn, adventure tourism companies are compelled to promote/sell
an array of activities/experiences to a diverse range of markets as novel and exclusive experiences to
facilitate the growth of adventure holidays (Swarbrooke et al., 2003). To assist adventure tourism
companies in achieving effective marketing strategies, the study’s objective is to identify significant sociopsychological
profile differences among male and female adventure tourists in Pretoria, South Africa.
Furthermore, to facilitate the comparison of adventure tourists’ profiles, an equal number of respondents
were male (117) and female (117), which provided a 93.6% response rate.
In comparison to female respondents, male respondents prefer winter as a season to participate in
hard/high-risk adventure activities when they are with or without their family, and they participate in
adventure activities for travelling and socialising purposes. Whereas, female respondents predominantly
regard scuba-diving, abseiling, and helicopter flights as a hard/high-risk adventure activity, although these
activities are generally regarded by the overall sample as being soft/low-risk adventure activities.
Furthermore, even though females’ participation in adventure activities is sponsored, they did not
participate or only participated in adventure activities once over the past year due to fear/risk and/or lack
of skill. This study established that there is a need to further research adventure tourists’ profiles before it
could be equally accepted and interpreted