Extreme tourism

Extreme tourism (also often referred to as danger tourism or shock tourism, although these concepts do not appear strictly similar) is a niche in the tourism industry involving travel to dangerous places (mountains, jungles, deserts, caves, canyons, etc.) or participation in dangerous events. Extreme tourism overlaps with extreme sport. The two share the main attraction, "adrenaline rush" caused by an element of risk,[1] and differ mostly in the degree of engagement and professionalism.

An area of the Sierre Madre jungle

Bungee jumping off the Victoria Falls Bridge in Zambia/Zimbabwe

Well-known extreme tourist destinations include:

• Chernobyl Tours – Ukraine[2][3]
• Swimming in the Devil's Pool in Victoria Falls – Zambia and Zimbabwe[4][5]
• Walking the Plank at Mount Hua – China[4][5]
• Death Road Tour – Bolivia[4]
• Green Zone – Baghdad, Iraq[6]
• Sac Actun tours – Riviera Maya, Mexico[4]
• Cave of Swallows – Mexico[4]
• Pole of Cold – Oymyakon, Yakutia, Siberia
• Titanic wreckage – Atlantic Ocean[7]
• Mount Everest
• Space tourism[7]
• North Korea
• Yemen