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9780750651868

Adventure Tourism

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  • ISBN13:

    9780750651868

  • ISBN10:

    0750651865

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2003-05-08
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Looking at the past, present and future of adventure tourism, Adventure Tourism: the new frontier examines the product, the adventure tourist profile, and issues such as supply, geography and sustainability. International case studies are used to illustrate these issues, including: Gorilla watching holidays,Trekking on Mount Everest, Diving holidays, and Outward Bound packages. Analysis of the development and nature of adventure tourism accompanies these studies, ensuring that the title is useful both for undergraduate and postgraduate students of tourism and for professionals involved in managing adventure tourism enterprises. There is also a companion website with additional cases, which can be found at www.bh/com/companions/0750651865. * International case studies, including wilderness tourism in Siberia, rock-climbing based tourism in Spain and mountain tourism in Greece * Unique treatment of the subject * A respected team of authors

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
List of case studies
ix
Preface xi
Part A: Setting the context
1(52)
Introduction, definitions and typologies
3(35)
Historical themes in adventure tourism
38(15)
Part B: The demand side
53(66)
The adventure tourist
55(36)
The adventure tourism market
91(28)
Part C: The supply side
119(34)
Destinations and venues
121(14)
The adventure tourism industry
135(18)
Part D: The management of adventure tourism
153(46)
Marketing
155(14)
Risk management
169(16)
Ethical issues in adventure tourism
185(14)
Part E: Key sectors of adventure tourism
199(46)
Wildlife tourism
201(27)
Artificial environment adventure
228(17)
Part F: The future of adventure tourism
245(42)
Adventure tourism in the future: the new frontier
247(40)
Part G: Case studies
287(52)
Case studies
289(50)
Bibliography 339(14)
Index 353

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