Explorer Travellers and Adventure Tourism

This book examines the nexus between exploring and tourism and argues that exploration travel - based heavily on explorer narratives and the promises of personal challenges and change - is a major trend in future tourism. In particular, it analyses how romanticised myths of explorers form a foundation for how modern day tourists view travel and themselves. Its scope ranges from the 'Golden Age' of imperial explorers in the 19th and early 20th centuries, through the growth of adventure and extreme tourism, to possible future trends including space travel. The volume should appeal to researchers

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Laing, Jennifer
Other Persons:	Frost, Warwick (contributor)
Publisher:	Clevedon : Channel View Publications
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (263 p)
Series:	Tourism and Cultural Change ; v.40
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record Contents; 1 Introducing the Explorer Traveller; Part 1 The Hero's Journey; 2 The Call to Adventure; 3 Preparation and Departure; 4 The Journey; 5 The Return; Part 2 Imagining Explorers; 6 Fiction and the Myth of the Explorer; 7 Desert Island Castaways; 8 Re-enactments; Part 3 Tourists at Play; 9 Crossing Borders; 10 On Safari; Part 4 The Future; 11 Destination Mars; 12 The Explorer Traveller: The Myth Continues; Sources A: Participants Interviewed; Sources B: Primary References; Secondary References; Index
ISBN:	978-1-84541-459-7 ; 978-1-84541-459-7 ; 978-1-84541-457-3
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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