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New Horizons in Tourism: Strange Experiences and Stranger Practices


New Horizons in Tourism: Strange Experiences and Stranger Practices

Hardback by Singh, Tej (Centre for Tourism Research and Development, Lucknow, India)

New Horizons in Tourism: Strange Experiences and Stranger Practices

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ISBN:
9780851998633
Publication Date:
15 Sep 2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
CABI Publishing
Pages:
240 pages
Format:
Hardback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 8 - 16 May 2024
New Horizons in Tourism: Strange Experiences and Stranger Practices

Description

Tourism as a dynamic phenomenon has a wonderful capacity to change, adapt and evolve. At the beginning of the 21st Century we are witnessing a growing demand from tourists for amazing and bizarre experiences, and more extreme and unusual environments. Written by leading researchers from around the world, New Horizons in Tourism, examines this new wave of tourism. It presents a host of examples of out-of-the-ordinary tourism including cutting-edge tourism activities such as vacationing in space and discovering the forbidden lands of Antarctica and Arctic regions. It also explores the trends of pro-poor and volunteer tourism, ecotourism, the rise in the number of footloose senior citizens, and the growing attraction of areas of conflict and atrocity.

Contents

PART 1: The Edge of Tourism 1: Tourism Searching New Horizons: An Overview, T V Singh 2: Vacationing in Space: Tourism Seeks New Skies, J Laing and G I Crouch, La Trobe University, Australia 3: Tourism in the Forbidden Lands: The Antarctica Experience, J Splettstoesser, Waconia, USA, D Landau, International Association of Antarctica Tourism, and R K Headland, University of Cambridge, UK 4: Skilled Commercial Adventure: The Edge of Tourism, R Buckley, Griffith University, Australia 5: Tourism Trespasses the Himalayan Heritage: The Hermit Village, Malana, T V Singh, P Chauhan, Government of Himachal Pradesh, India, and S Singh, Brock University, Canada PART 2: The Macabre in Tourism 6: Thanatourism in the Early 21st Century: Moral Panics, Ulterior Motives, and Alterior Desires, A V Seaton, University of Luton, UK, and J J Lennon, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK 7: Tourism at the Borders of Conflict and (De)militarized Zones, D J Timothy, Arizona State University, USA, B Prideaux, James Cook University, Australia, and S SeongSeop-Kim, Sejong University, Republic of Korea 8: Tourism and the Heritage of Atrocity: Managing the Heritage of South African Apartheid for Entertainment, G J Ashworth, University of Groningen, The Netherlands PART 3: The Unconventional in Tourism 9: Deep Ecotourism: Seeking Theoretical and Practical Reverence, D A Fennell, Brock University, Canada 10: Against the Wind - Impermanence in Wilderness: The Tasmanian Experience, T H B Sofield, University of Tasmania, Australia 11: Health Tourism in Kyrgyz Republic: The Soviet Salt mine Experience, P Schofield, University of Salford, UK PART 4: Tourism For the Poor, Old and Humankind 12: Pro-Poor Tourism: Benefiting the Poor, D Roe, International Institute for Environment and Development, UK, H Goodwin, University of Greenwich, UK, C Ashley, Overseas Development Institute, UK 13: Tourism for the Old-Young and Old-Old , M Cleaver Sellick, Central Washington University, USA, and T E Muller, Griffith University, Australia 14: Volunteer Tourism: New Pilgrimages to the Himalayas, S Singh and T V Singh PART 5: The Future 15: Will Tourism Vanish? Looking beyond the Horizon, J Aramberri, Drexel University, USA

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