Explorer Travellers and Adventure Tourism

by Warwick Frost and Jennifer Laing

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845414578
• ISBN13: 9781845414573
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.2"