Adventure Tourism
Develop high-quality adventure tourism experiences and strategies
Establish Adventure Tourism Development Plans, and Expand Adventure Activity Delivery
Adventure tourism has the potential to powerfully support environmental conservation, sustainable economic development, outdoor recreation and other positive outcomes for nonprofits, businesses, regions and entire nations.
Viristar is well-equipped to help adventure tourism operators, associations, and government bodies develop and successfully execute plans to increase and improve adventure tourism activities in their region.
What Is Adventure Tourism?
Adventure tourism involves travel and exploration involving a degree of challenge or uncertainty. It often includes exploration of remote and unique destinations, and the excitement and thrill of engaging in new activities, connecting with different cultures, and exploring novel landscapes.
Adventure tourism, or adventure travel, can happen close to home, or in all corners of the world–from Africa, the Middle East and Australia, to Southeast Asia, Antarctica and beyond.
No matter the location, however, both “hard adventure” and “soft adventure” experiences involve guiding visitors to step outside their comfort zone, while helping ensure that physically challenging and emotionally stimulating activities remain fun, accessible, inclusive, and well-managed for risk.
Viristar supports organizations involved in a wide variety of adventure tourism experiences, including skydiving, paragliding, packrafting, riverboarding, wildlife safaris, mountaineering, sailing, paddling, ice climbing, ziplines, canopy tours, challenge courses, canyoneering, rafting, kiteboarding, biking, walking tours, snorkeling, guided excursions, jungle treks, overland expeditions, community-based tourism, caving, ecotourism, and cultural interpretation experiences, along with scientific, academic, volunteer-based and educational tours.
The Viristar Advantage
Use our global expertise to help you expand and improve your adventure tourism activities. Our staff’s experience in the adventure tourism sector includes:
- Developing procedures for community-based tourism in tribal villages in northern Thailand
- Evaluating safety practices for educational trips with indigenous peoples of southern Taiwan
- Training leadership of adventurous journey providers in the Middle East
- Providing travel safety training in Guangxi autonomous region to adventure travel operators from across China
- Running on-site courses in Peru for adventure tourism specialists in the Peruvian Andes
- Leading workshops in Vietnam for experiential trip providers from Asia and Oceania
- Providing certification courses in Iceland for Nordic adventure guides
- Developing recommendations for high-risk adventure tourism safety legislation in the European nation of Georgia
How Viristar Can Help
Viristar offers multiple adventure tourism development services. Our expert team can help you:
- Design outdoor itineraries and adventure plans
- Establish safety management systems
- Develop training plans and documents
- Create service quality assessment tools
- Conform with locally applicable safety and quality standards, schemes and badge requirements
- Integrate environmental and cultural activities
- Understand culturally-responsive best practices
- Meet local safety and quality standards
- Develop legislation, regulation, activity standards, good practice guides, approved codes of practice, or other regulatory instruments
