Explorer Travellers and Adventure Tourism / / Jennifer Laing, Warwick Frost.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CVP eBook-Package Backfile 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Laing, Jennifer,; Frost, Warwick,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 40
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: 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 --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781845414597; 9783110754377
• DOI: 10.21832/9781845414597
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jennifer Laing, Warwick Frost.

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 and students across a variety of disciplines, including tourism studies, sociology, geography and history.