New Horizons in Tourism ：Strange Experiences and Stranger Practices

Publication subTitle ：Strange Experiences and Stranger Practices

Author： Singh   T.V.  

Publisher： CABI Publishing‎

Publication year： 2004

E-ISBN: 9780851990521

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780851998633

Subject： F59 Tourism Economy;F7 Trade Economy

Keyword： Tourism Industry Sport and Leisure Industries Business and Economics Industries Hospitality Travel and Tourism

Language： ENG

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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.

Chapter

Contributors

About the Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 Tourism Searching for New Horizons: an Overview

2 Vacationing in Space: Tourism Seeks ‘New Skies’

3 Tourism in the Forbidden Lands: the Antarctica Experience

4 Skilled Commercial Adventure: the Edge of Tourism

5 Tourism Trespasses on the Himalayan Heritage: the Hermit Village, Malana

6 Thanatourism in the Early 21st Century: Moral Panics, Ulterior Motives and Alterior Desires

7 Tourism at Borders of Conflict and (De)militarized Zones

8 Tourism and the Heritage of Atrocity: Managing the Heritage of South African Apartheid for Entertainment

9 Deep Ecotourism: Seeking Theoretical and Practical Reverence

10 Against the Wind – Impermanence in Wilderness: the Tasmanian Experience

11 Health Tourism in the Kyrgyz Republic: the Soviet Salt Mine Experience

12 Pro-poor Tourism: Benefiting the Poor

13 Tourism for the Young-old and Old-old

14 Volunteer Tourism: New Pilgrimages to the Himalayas

15 Will Travel Vanish? Looking Beyond the Horizon

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