The content of concepts and the reason of popularity in the youth environment: adventure and extreme tourism

Abstract. The legal analysis of ratio of concepts of extreme, sports and adventure tourism is given in the paper. The author comes to a conclusion that in the present time the terms “extreme” and “sports” tourism in a lexicon of the Government of the Russian Federation are interchangeable; adventure tourism has independent value and is applied mainly in the resolutions relating to Siberia and the Far East, first of all – the Baikal recreational zone. The reasons of popularity of the considered types of tourism in the youth environment are listed.