Adventure Tourism 100 Hours Certificate Course

There are 8 lessons:

1 Scope and nature of Adventure Tourism

• Introduction to adventure tourism
• Historical themes of adventure tourism
• Women travellers
• Adventure tourism experiences
• Motivating factors for adventure tourism
• Adventure activities
• Limitations and risks
• Artificial environments
• Non-physical adventure tourism

2. The Product: Sources and Types

• Types of adventure tourism
• Types of adventure locations
• Case Studies – New Zealand, India, Iceland, Africa and Brazil
• Sources of Information

3. Management

• Management Process
• Management Issues
• Staffing
• Training
• Transport
• Equipment Suppliers
• Media
• Voluntary Organisations
• Marketing
• Marketing Tools
• Seasonal Fluctuations

4. The Customer

• Adventure Tourism Customers
• Market Sector
• Tourist Motivation
• Conservation Tourism
• Adventure Tourist Behaviour
• Soft and Hard Adventurers
• Risk Taking
• Ecotourism
• Customer Expectations

5. Locations & Facilities - Artificial environments

• Artificial Environment Tourism
• Artificial Adventure Environments
• Advancement in Adventure Developments
• Examples of Artificial Adventure Tourism
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Simulated Adventure Tourism
• Classification of Artificial Adventure

6. Locations & Facilities - Natural

• Natural Environments
• Adventure Tourism in Natural Environments
• Wildlife Tourism
• Case Study: Nature-based Tourism in Antarctica
• Ecotourism
• Benefits of nature-based tourism
• Nature-based Ecotourism
• Locations and destinations
• Health benefits of nature
• Advantages and disadvantages of nature-based tourism

7. Ethics, Sustainability and Environmental impacts

• Introduction
• Social and cultural impacts
• Environmental impacts
• Economic impacts

8. Risk management & Insurance

• Some categories of risk
• Risk management strategies and plans
• Assessing the risk
• The risk management plan
• Consequences of an event happening
• Crisis management
• Insurance

Please Note: Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.