REC280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Adventure Travel, Bungee Jumping

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: REC280
• Professor: Karla Boluk

Document Summary

There are a number of conclusions to be drawn from the discussion above that have a bearing upon the serious-casual leisure model. First, adventure is subjective and personalised so the type of engagement will vary from person to person. Second, "doing" adventure at whatever level makes physical demands that necessitate skill acquisition. This offers the potential for more serious activity in the future. Third, ubiquitous and easily accessed knowledge and information both promotes the potential for individual planning of serious leisure and advertises the "packaging services" of adventure companies which effectively offers to diminish that individuality. Fourth, because adventure covers such a broad spectrum of activities which embrace sport and tourism, it is difficult to generalise about issues of casual or serious adventure. Certain adventure activities engage directly in wild, often remote places over extended periods of time and require resilience and endeavour in different ways to the pre-requisites of the instant thrill forms of adventure tourism.