"An Extreme Tourist is someone who explores, experiences and totally immerses themselves in their travel destination - mind, body and soul." It's a definition provided by Extreme Tourist the independent traveller's web community devoted to active travel, adventure and eco tourism.
The Wikipedia ads that extreme tourism - that is also known as shock tourism - is a type of niche tourism involving travel to dangerous places (mountains, jungles, deserts, caves, etc.) or participation in dangerous events. As we can see from those two definitions, extreme tourism overlaps with extreme sport because it they share the adrenaline rush caused by an element of risk.
Interestingly, Word Spy indicates hat the second definition was created by "Dennis Tito, the poster boy for "out-there" vacations. (In case you forget, Tito was the businessman who paid US$20 million to the Russian Aerospace Agency to let him hang out at the International Space Station for a few days.)".
Extreme tourism is a growing business in the countries of the former Soviet Union - such as Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, etc. and in South American countries (e.g., Peru, Chile and Argentina). The mountainous and rugged terrain of Northern Pakistan has also developed into a popular extreme tourism location, but because of the Al Qaida scare it's not as popular.
Read about extreme tourism in Amazon.com books
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byChernobyl - one of most popular extreme tourism destinations - Flickr Photos
Chernobyl by greg.chiasson
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Chernobyl by jeremy_nicholl
Chernobyl - YouTube videos
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- Extreme Tourist
- The independent traveller's web community devoted to active travel, adventure and eco tourism. Extreme Tourist has everything the independent traveller needs - accommodation, transport, eating and partying, activities, forums and travel tools.
- Extreme Tourism In Russia
- http://englishFrom Pravda.Ru - Russian online newspaper.
- Club Gulag: Inside Post-Soviet 'Extreme Tourism'
- Froma World Hum - The Travelers Behind the Scenes.
- Ukraine parliament speaker proposes opening Chernobyl to tourism
- From RIA Novosti.
- Citizen in Space: Dennis Tito and His Bid for Extreme Tourism
- By Michael Cassutt Special to SPACE.com
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markbestweb wrote...
It's great to find a lens with this kind of information. Traveling helps people grow up and be aware of all the wonderful things they habe in their lives. When traveling is quite important to have all the information of the place you are visiting; when i went to Galicia I found a lot of extreme and non-extreme activities to do. Cheers again for your great job!
Posted July 29, 2008
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