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Dimensions of adventure tourism

Tourism Management Perspectives, 2021
Academic interest in adventure tourism has increased in recent years given the exponential growth of this sector. Physical outdoor activity-based conceptualisations of adventure tourism - from soft adventure (hiking, snorkelling, etc.) to hard adventure (
Sarah Gardiner, Anna Kwek
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Adventure recreation and subjective well-being: a conceptual framework

Leisure Studies, 2020
Despite the documented positive outcomes of adventure experiences, subjective well-being (SWB) frameworks have been largely absent from discourse and analyses in adventure studies.
Susan Houge Mackenzie, Ken Hodge
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Adventure tourism: a perspective paper

Tourism Review, 2019
Purpose This paper aims to demonstrate the importance of adventure tourism in tourism the tourism industry and in tourism research. Apart from giving an overview of current literature and discussion, this paper also looks into future trends in adventure
Manuel Sand
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Social media engagement and impacts on post-COVID-19 travel intention for adventure tourism in New Zealand

Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 2023
This study examined the online search behavior of international students and the impacts of social media content on their intention to purchase adventure tourism products during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Claire Liu, Hoi Tung Chong
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Improving the analysis and reporting of studies of nature-based adventure interventions: a review of studies published in JAEOL

Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2023
Nature-based adventure (NBA) interventions can be broadly understood as any intervention of adventure occurring in a natural setting not necessarily involving a licensed mental health professional.
Claudio D. Rosa, T. S. Chaves, Silvia Collado, N. Harper   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Multiple Motives for Adventure Sport Revisited: A Multi-Activity Investigation

Leisure Sciences, 2022
The growing popularity of adventure recreation highlights the need to understand its participants and the individual characteristics of these activities in order to target health and well-being outcomes through adventure leisure pursuits.
Anika Frühauf, S. Houge Mackenzie, P. Boudreau, K. Hodge, M. Kopp   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Adventure travel and tourism after COVID-19 – business as usual or opportunity to reset?

Tourism Geographies, 2020
Tom Friedman, one of the columnists from the New York Times, opined recently that the current generation will come to think of BC and AC as Before Corona and After Corona (Friedman, 2020) This got ...
S. Nepal
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Adventurous Arctic encounters? Exploring Chinese adventure tourism

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 2020
While Greenland prepares itself to get “China ready” and Visit Greenland is increasingly gearing its offerings towards adventure tourists, this article examines the Chinese adventure market to Greenland. We first explore China-directed activities at the destination such as B2B trade development, product development and marketing training support for ...
Natasha Martin, Carina Ren
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Adventure tourists' electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM) intention: The effect of water-based adventure experience, grandiose narcissism, and self-presentation

Tourism and Hospitality Research, 2021
This study aims to empirically examine the effect of tourists’ grandiose narcissism and adventure experiences on their self-presentation and electronic word-of-mouth communication (e-WOM) intention in a water-based adventure tourism setting.
Md. Kamrul Hasan, N. M. Neela
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Is adventure tourism a coherent concept? A review of research approaches on adventure tourism

Annals of Leisure Research, 2018
Outi Rantala, Jarno Valkonen
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