Cracow, Poland

Adventure Tourism

Turystyka przygodowa

Bachelor's
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Adventure Tourism at AWF Kraków

Language: PolishStudies in Polish
Subject area: physical education, tourism, services
Kind of studies: full-time studies

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Adventure
An adventure is an exciting experience that is typically a bold, sometimes risky, undertaking. Adventures may be activities with some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting or participating in extreme sports. The term also broadly refers to any enterprise that is potentially fraught with physical, financial or psychological risk, such as a business venture, or other major life undertakings.
Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours. Tourism may be international, or within the traveller's country. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go "beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only", as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes".
Adventure
Some bold adventurers disdain
The limits of their little reign,
And unknown regions dare descry.
Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
Tourism
The sheep like nature of travel - being on a beach with thousands of other people is not my idea of fun. I also don't like being a tourist because you don't know what's really going on in a country.
Diana Quick in: Caroline Rees Diana Quick's Travelling Life, The Telegraph, 7 September 2013
Adventure
* * * and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign worlds.
John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book X, line 439
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