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Explorer Travellers and Adventure Tourism.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Tourism and Cultural Change SeriesPublisher: Bristol : Channel View Publications, Limited, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (263 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781845414597
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Explorer Travellers and Adventure TourismDDC classification:
  • 338.4791
LOC classification:
  • G516 -- .L35 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- 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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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