This chapter evaluates the characteristics of the adventure tourism customer, differentiating each into market segments and looking at motivations. It also explores the growth of lifestyle sports and the influence of the internet in propagating lifestyles and new types of adventure activities....

This chapter provides an overview of adventure and outdoor product development in different geographical spaces, namely, mountains and glaciers, air, rivers, oceans/seas, deserts, jungles, the Poles, and urban areas. Technological improvements that have affected the development of adventure and...

This chapter considers adventure lifestyles as one of the many lifestyle choices that individuals make in a postmodern society. It also explores the factors influencing increased participation in adventure lifestyles, including the professionalization of adventure sports and tourism and the...

This chapter outlines the strategies and practices that can be used to manage outdoor recreation. Related concepts applied to the management of outdoor recreation are also discussed, namely, the classification of problem behaviours, theories of moral development, and communication theory.

This chapter examines climate change perceptions in the context of nature-based tourism in the case study area of western Maine, USA. It identifies the perceptions of risks and challenges associated with changes in climate, the variables that influence perceptions of risk, and the behavioural...

This chapter aims is to review trends in some of the main winter recreation activities in the Swedish mountains in order to discuss associated challenges and opportunities through the lens of such mega trends. To do so, it takes advantage of previous studies of mountain recreation in Sweden and...

This chapter examines motivations associated with winter recreation at Vail Pass (Colorado, USA) reported by motorized recreationists (i.e. snowmobiler), non-motorized recreationists (e.g. backcountry skier) and a hybrid group (i.e. snowmobile-assisted skier). The chapter examines whether...

This chapter focuses on the six most popular alternative winter sport activities in Tyrol (Austria): backcountry skiing, ski touring on slopes (i.e. skiing up the hill on the fringe of groomed ski slopes), winter hiking, tobogganing, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing. More precisely, it wants to ...

This chapter examines the winter tourism offers at the Tatra National Park in Poland as well as the management challenges, including zoning of winter recreation, visitor monitoring, user conflicts, risk and safety, and cooperation for nature conservation.

This chapter analyses the role of risk and danger in outdoor recreation with a special focus on winter tourism, and then presents recent findings on accidents and injuries when practising winter sport activities. Finally, this chapter provides recommendations to reduce the number of accidents and...