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Mountaineering Tourism: A Critical Perspective

Mountaineering Tourism: A Critical Perspective

Paperback

Series: Routledge Focus on Tourism and Hospitality

Business GeneralHiking & Climbing

ISBN10: 0367558327
ISBN13: 9780367558321
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 29 2024
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This book offers a critical account of the historical evolution of mountaineering and its relation to the phenomenon of tourism, providing an overview of recent developments linked to the diversification, commodification and commercialisation of mountaineering activity.

Mountaineering, broadly defined as hiking, trekking and climbing, is now a mass phenomenon, with continually growing numbers of trekkers, climbers and religious tourists hiking in mountain regions. Increasing visitor numbers require the current policies to be updated. The environments around high-mountain areas and their local resident communities, until recently cut off from civilisation, are sensitive to outside influences and have been abruptly exposed to the impact of mountaineering and related activities. This is the first book to disentangle overlapping terms and definitions related to mountaineering tourism. It identifies the key terms and turning points in mountaineering tourism and discusses the impacts of mountaineering tourism from an environmental, socio-cultural and personal perspective and identifies current tourism management policies. Finally, this book provides a continuum between the past and future of mountaineering tourism and aims to provide policy suggestions for sustainable management of fragile mountain regions.

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