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Explorer Travellers and Adventure Tourism

Explorer Travellers and Adventure Tourism

Paperback

Series: Tourism and Cultural Change, Book 40

Business GeneralAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1845414578
ISBN13: 9781845414573
Publisher: Channel View
Published: Aug 1 2014
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

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.

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