Explorer Travellers and Adventure Tourism /

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

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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 foundati...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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