Adventure Travel Safety and Liability
Introduction to this Adventure Travel Section
The adventure travel business is big in the United States and for that matter all over the world. In the year 2000 the estimated worldwide revenue was $154 billion and was growing at a 20% annual growth rate. See Adventure Travel Industry Growth Statistics, Christina Heyniger, Xola Consulting.
This industry is unregulated and the certifications the guides obtain are of limited comfort because the associations regulating those guiding services have no enforcement mechanism. The release documents that adventure travel customers sign completely relieves the guiding service of any wrongdoing these Generation X "kids" that they hire do on the trip.
How do I know this? Well, I know this because of what I experienced while on a climbing trip to Mt. Elbrus in Russia and from other trips to Africa, Asia, Europe and South America. The last trip to Mt. Elbrus convinced me to create a blog and to secure the internet address www.mountainmadnesssucks.com. The blog has been up and running as a blogspot product, but I'm tiring of blogging in so many different sites so I've decided to bring it online with the Lombardi Law Firm website and to create Adventure Travel as a practice area. That way others who consider mountaineering or other forms of adventure travel can read what experience I've had and others. I invite others who experience to share with our readers. Our ideas are for the promotion of safety and to make people aware of how to stay safe and to avoid the mistakes of others.
http://mountainmadnesssucks.blogspot.com/
Let's begin; I've been blogging on a separate site called Mountain Madness Sucks (which it does) and I'm going to redirect those posts to this blog. The idea remains the same. I will bring you what customer's say about the guiding services for adventure travel. It's going to be a long haul as I suspect clients will want to remain private. Privacy is one thing and I'll respect and I expect your complaints to be factual. So let's have at it and provide feedback that the adventure travel industry doesn't want revealed.
From me to you I remain,
Sincerely yours,
Stephen D. Lombardi
Onward we march.
For good advice see a lawyer and if you have questions about this blog, the law or your case write or call me directly. Steve Lombardi, sdlombardi@aol.com and 515-222-1110. I handle all types of personal injury cases including car accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, workers' compensation cases. We help truckers all across the country who come through Iowa and end up in an accident. If we need other lawyers from other states we hire them and it costs you no more than what you would pay us; in other words, we split the fee between us. So call 515-222-1110 or email us at sdlombardi@aol.com. 
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