Bibliograph

Explorer travellers and adventure tourism, Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost

Type

Label

Explorer travellers and adventure tourism, Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Explorer travellers and adventure tourism

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost

Series statement

Tourism and cultural change, 40

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. 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

Target audience

adult

Classification