Adventure Tourist Typology in Turkey

Abstract

The study was starting to discover the adventure tourists who participate in high-risk activities in Turkey. Research was conducted for adventure tourists participating the most preferred adventure activities which are paragliding, scuba diving, surfing, rafting, canoeing, camping, skiing/snowboarding, rock climbing, trekking and tour biking. It was aimed to create adventure tourist typology by evaluating the demographic characteristics, recreational behavior, personality characteristics and the activities adventure tourists prefer. For this purpose, the allocentric personality scale -which is developed to reveal the tourist personality- was used. Along with this scale, a questionnaire form containing variables on recreational behavior and demographic characteristics of adventure tourists has been created. Within the scope of the research, the data were collected using the survey technique, which is one of the quantitative research methods. Adventure tourists participating in the 10 determined adventure activities were selected using the convenience sampling method and a total of 1246 data were obtained from these tourists. As a result of the research, personality typology of adventure tourists were determined and personality types, recreational behaviors and demographic characteristics were determined according to the adventure activities preferred by adventure tourists.