Extereme Tourism

4: If it snows on a football pitch, it snows for everyone. Football is an example of a traditional team sport.

3: This windsurfer fell, because of uncontrollable conditions (wind). Windsurfing is a solitary extreme sport example.

Attractions of Extreme Activities

5. If a parachute does not open, the parachutist is likely to die; even if the parachute does open, there are dangers.

Who is attracted?

Although extreme sports attract a diverse age range, they are most popular among young adults.

Why are they attracted?

These activities are often attractive because of the exertion of the activity and danger of death, if anything goes wrong. Another attraction of an extreme activity could be the challenge; people push themselves to the limits in extreme activities, in order to achieve a personal goal.

Extreme Environment Tourism

What is Extreme Environment Tourism?

6. These are examples of extreme environments; the desert and Arctic exhibit extreme climates, mountains exhibit dangerous climate and landscape (the landscape also makes various extreme sports possible) and the Amazon exhibits dangerous landscape (rivers and jungles, where you are easy prey for the various dangerous animals), climate (in the form of rare climatic events) and wildlife (attractive, because it is fascinating and dangerous). They are sparsely populated by humans.

Extreme environment tourism involves areas that are hard for humans to live in, and development of tourism has only recently begun. The activities - that are available and necessary for survival - often including exertion and risk. These areas are often dangerous because of the landscape, climate and/or wildlife. Another thing that makes extreme environments so extreme is the low population of the areas, this is caused by the difficulty people have with living in these environments, it results in the areas being overrun with wild animals and having no services for humans. Extreme environments often include either: mountains, deserts, rainforests, sparse population, caves and ice-covered terrain. Tourism in extreme environments can also be called ‘shock tourism’ or ‘adventure tourism’, an example is travelling across the uninhabited Chernobyl Alienation Zone.

Attractions of Extreme Environments

Who is attracted?

        Holidays to extreme locations are often expensive, this is because the distances are great and the groups are small. The groups are small because the airports often can’t accommodate large planes, there are not enough services to sustain large groups and extreme tourism is not as popular as mass tourism. If the groups were larger, the cost of the flight would be less for each person, because it would be shared out between more people. Because of the expense and danger of the holiday, you obviously need rich people without the responsibility to stay alive to look after their families. As well as this, the people need to be relatively young and fit, in order to be able to stand the physical exertion of the holiday. This means unmarried people with accumulated wealth, good income and physical fitness are attracted by extreme environments. People who fit this description are often around 30 years old. People also have to be quite adventurous, in order to be attracted by extreme environments. High latitude environments, such as mountains attract adventurous people, who like a physical challenge.

Why are they attracted?

As mass tourist locations become overcrowded, tourists begin to look for holidays in areas, where human population is low. As with extreme sports, the attraction of extreme tourism is the danger, exertion and risk, that cause an adrenaline rush. Tourists wanting an extreme holiday are attracted to tropical areas, because of the annual climate and climatic events that happen during certain seasons. The wildlife is also an attraction, as it is mostly deadly, dangerous and interesting. The attractions of mountains and other locations of high latitude are cold, snow, hiking, climbing, biking, skiing, snow boarding and physical challenge. Deserts are attractive, because the lack of people and buildings give people peace, solitude and the ability to drive off-road vehicles, such as quad bikes.