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Characteristics of adventure tourism

1) Self-participation and experience differences

Tourists can participate in adventure tourism independently, give full play to their potential and talents, and enjoy the joy of exerting their potential and talents while enjoying the natural and human scenery. Adventure tourists can choose their own adventure experience according to their special needs. By accepting challenges, overcoming various difficulties and experiencing various experiences, tourists get special experience surprises and strong self-satisfaction and reach the "peak experience". Due to the differences of tourists' personal physique, intelligence, emotion and travel needs, different tourists can get different adventure experiences, emotional experiences and spiritual experiences (success and failure, pain and joy, etc.). ).

Adventure and novelty

Adventure tourism projects and routes are rich in content and have certain adventure factors, which can allow tourists to show and test their abilities, including physical strength, endurance, ability to deal with emergencies and psychological quality, and satisfy tourists' desire to explore, seek differences and experience pleasures that cannot be experienced in modern city life. The design perspective of adventure tourism projects and routes is novel, which can highlight one or two unique themes. Every point and every program arrangement of the specific projects and routes designed are novel, which gives visitors a "thrilling pleasure" every day.

(c) adventure and safety

Adventure experience is very important in adventure tourism activities, and the lack of adventure will lead to the decrease of the excitement of tourists' experience. Therefore, in order to let tourists get the "peak experience" of surprise, it is necessary to ensure the thrill of adventure tourism, ensure the safety of tourists, and let tourists get the "absolute surprise" adventure experience in the "absolutely safe" adventure tourism.

(4) professionalism and technicality

The organizer of adventure tourism shall, according to the needs of adventure tourism projects, teach tourists basic knowledge of outdoor tourism, such as equipment use, camping, disinfection, direction identification, etc. There are also special skills that adventure tourists must master, such as rafting, rock climbing, cliff falling, skydiving and space exploration. The arrangement of adventure routes should reflect the requirements of relatively concentrated specific tourism ecological environment, relatively harmonious natural geographical conditions and humanistic conditions, and the travel itinerary should be flexible, which not only maintains the physical strength of tourists, but also challenges their physical or psychological limits. When necessary, tourists should be helped to eliminate the existing dangers and ensure the safety of tourists. All of these require a certain degree of professionalism and technology.

(5) Selectivity and theme

In order to ensure the authenticity of adventure tourists' experience, adventure tourism generally chooses beautiful, primitive and undeveloped tourist destinations. Adventure tourism is limited to tourists with special adventure hobbies, good physical strength and high skills; Adventure tourism is expensive and requires participants to have better economic conditions. The experience of adventure tourism has a strong theme. Adventure tourism is carried out in a tourist destination environment with primitive nature and unique culture. Tourism destination preserves the originality, naturalness and authenticity of ecological environment, lifestyle and cultural model, and can bring special adventure experience to tourists.

(6) Commercialization

Adventure tourism can make tourists get special feelings and experiences, so it has high commercial value. As long as the corresponding requirements of adventure tourism development and management are met, adventure tourism can develop into a market-oriented and popular project product. Therefore, adventure tourism can bring huge economic benefits to developers and destination countries or regions.