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...

Frontmatter -- 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...