Camino del Rey - extreme tourism

Here's the youtube clip that I showed earlier from the Camino del Rey, the world's most dangerous hike, and a good example of how tourists push the boundaries. The more extreme and more remote the better. There's a very strong hierarchy among backpackers for instance, the more remote, the less you spent, the more native you've gone the better. Explorer tourists and adventure tourists are most often the ones the discover new and un-chartered tourist destinations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmDhRvvs5Xw

To travel is very important for more and more people. Especially for a majority of people in highly economically developed countries, but even so in emerging economies such as China and India. When you get to the stage of not merely surviving and getting food and clothes you want to broaden your perspectives. I agree with Robert Louis Stevenson who said "I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

The best travel author, according to me is Bruce Chatwin. Especially his book on Australia (Drömspår).