Sport and adventure in the Pădurea Craiului Mountains

The term of tourist product, as it was understood in the first decade after December, has undergone an important change of meaning, in the age of today’s tourist. The simple outings in nature are replaced by trekking and cycle tourism tours, the classical mountain climbing by sport climbing, via fer...

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Published inGeoSport for Society Vol. 11; no. 2; pp. 48 - 58
Main Authors Varodi Mihaela OLĂU, Dana Ioana CRISTEA, Anca-Cristina POP, Maria GOZNER
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Editura Universităţii din Oradea 31.12.2019
Subjects
adventure
biking
caving
climbing
rafting
trekking
via-ferrata
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Summary:The term of tourist product, as it was understood in the first decade after December, has undergone an important change of meaning, in the age of today’s tourist. The simple outings in nature are replaced by trekking and cycle tourism tours, the classical mountain climbing by sport climbing, via ferrata, rafting and canyoning, wandering through caves by speotourism and the list may continue. Finally, we realize that the era of speed and the Internet brings along a paradigm change in terms of the tourist offer: adaptation to the need for adrenaline is done through extreme sports and adventure tourism services. The present study aims to highlight some recreational and leisure, sportive and adventure activities: caving tourism, mountain climbing, sport climbing, via ferrate, mountain hiking, cyc le tourism, zip line and rafting, all happening in Pădurea Craiului Mountains. If the above assertion seems generally valid, this area is perfectly in line with the trends, the tourism operators offer the most diverse activities, to meet the growing demand of new tourist products.
ISSN:2393-1353
2393-1353
DOI:10.30892/gss.1101-048