New horizons in tourism : strange experiences and stranger practices /
This book illustrates the tremendous outreach of tourism in search of extraordinary, spectacular and bizarre experiences. It covers tourism in out-of-the-ordinary environments (space tourism, Antarctic tourism, and adventure/heritage tourism in remote areas); dark tourism; other unconventional forms...
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| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK :
CABI,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Tourism Searching for New Horizons : an Overview / Tej Vir Singh
- Vacationing in Space : Tourism Seeks 'New Skies' / Jennifer Laing and Geoffrey I. Crouch
- Tourism in the Forbidden Lands : the Antarctica Experience / John Splettstoesser, Denise Landau and R.K. Headland
- Skilled Commercial Adventure : the Edge of Tourism / Ralf Buckley
- Tourism Trespasses on the Himalayan Heritage : the Hermit Village, Malana / Tej Vir Singh, Purnima Chauhan and Shalini Singh
- Thanatourism in the Early 21st Century : Moral Panics, Ulterior Motives and Alterior Desires / A.V. Seaton and J.J. Lennon
- Tourism at the Borders of Conflict and (De)militarized Zones / Dallen J. Timothy, Bruce Prideaux and Samuel Seongseop-Kim
- Tourism and the Heritage of Atrocity : Managing the Heritage of South African Apartheid for Entertainment / G.J. Ashworth
- Deep Ecotourism : Seeking Theoretical and Practical Reverence / David A. Fennell
- Against the Wind : Impermanence in Wilderness : the Tasmanian Experience / Trevor H.B. Sofield
- Health Tourism in Kyrgyz Republic : the Soviet Salt Mine Experience / Peter Schofield
- Pro-poor Tourism : Benefiting the Poor / Dilys Roe, Harold Goodwin and Caroline Ashley
- Tourism for the Young-old and Old-old / Megan Cleaver Sellick and Thomas E. Muller
- Volunteer Tourism : New Pilgrimages to the Himalayas / Shalini Singh and Tej Vir Singh
- Will Travel Vanish? Looking Beyond the Horizon / Julio R. Aramberri.