ABSTRACT
If the prosperity of “new tourism format” represents a postmodern way of life and thought, the safety problem is a fundamental problem which lies in front of it.
It has huge hidden dangers and developmental disorders. “High-risk groups’ self-help leisure activities in the wild” is specially focused on the new concept of safety problems. It reflects various core issues which the “new tourism format” meet, but the traditional tourism doesn’t face. This concept covers the following contents specifically:
After 20 years’ development, “extreme tourism” has already included the land, sea and air. It constitutes a subset of the field high-risk groups’ self-help leisure activities in the wild in the very great degree; and nowadays so-called “risky tourism project”1 is popular which qualitatively differ from high-risk groups’ self-help leisure activities in the wild. The conception of “high-risk groups’ self-help leisure activities in the wild” is put forward, which both have clear pertinence and strong recapitulate. In essence, during high-risk groups’ self-help leisure activities in the wild, when they are in danger, the self-help groups are both only subjects and their own unique stakeholders. This is the essence of this kind of group as unique social relationship. It also has difference between this and other leisure activities.
