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Explorer travellers and adventure tourism /
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 foundati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol ; Buffalo :
Channel View Publications,
2014.
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| Colección: | Tourism and cultural change ;
40. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Introducing the Explorer Traveller; Part 1 The Hero's Journey; 2 The Call to Adventure; 3 Preparation and Departure; 4 The Journey; 5 The Return; Part 2 Imagining Explorers; 6 Fiction and the Myth of the Explorer; 7 Desert Island Castaways; 8 Re-enactments; Part 3 Tourists at Play; 9 Crossing Borders; 10 On Safari; Part 4 The Future; 11 Destination Mars; 12 The Explorer Traveller: The Myth Continues; Sources A: Participants Interviewed; Sources B: Primary References; Secondary References; Index.