Laing / Frost Explorer Travellers and Adventure Tourism

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-84541-460-3
Verlag: Channel View Publications
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 40, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Tourism and Cultural Change

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, through the growth of adventure and extreme tourism, to possible future trends including space travel. The volume should appeal to researchers and students across a variety of disciplines, including tourism studies, sociology, geography and history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Laing, Jennifer

Frost, Warwick

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introducing the Explorer Traveller

Section 1 – The Hero’s Journey

2. The Call to Adventure

3. Preparation and Departure

4. The Journey

5. The Return

Section 2 – Imagining Explorers

6. Fiction and the Myth of the Explorer

7. Desert Island Castaways

8. Re-enactments

Section 3 – Tourists At Play

9. Crossing Borders

10. On Safari

Section 4 – The Future

11. Destination Mars

12. The Explorer Traveller: The Myth Continues

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Über Autor(innen)

Frost, Warwick
Warwick Frost is Professor of Tourism, Heritage and the Media at La Trobe University, Australia. His research interests include heritage tourism, tourism and the media, events and environmental history. With Associate Professor Jennifer Frost, he is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Heritage Tourism. He is the author or editor of 16 books. His most recent are, Jennifer Frost and Warwick Frost, Medieval Imaginaries in Contemporary Media, Heritage and Tourism (Routledge, 2022) and Warwick Frost, An Environmental History of Australian Rainforests until 1939: Fire, Rain, Settlers and Conservation (Routledge, 2021).

Laing, Jennifer
Jennifer Frost is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Sport and Tourism at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests include travel narratives; the role of events in society; rural and regional regeneration through tourism and events; and health and wellness tourism. Her most recent co-authored research book is Royal Events: Rituals, Innovations, Meanings (Routledge, 2018). Jennifer is a co-editor of the Routledge Advances in Events Research series and was recognised in 2017 as an Emerging Scholar of Distinction by the International Academy for the Study of Tourism.

Jennifer Laing is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University, Australia. Her research interests include heritage, events, travel narratives and the interaction between media, popular culture and tourism. She also co-edits the Advances in Event Research series (Routledge) with Warwick Frost.

Warwick Frost is an Associate Professor at La Trobe University, Australia. His research interests include natural and cultural heritage and the interplay between tourism and popular culture. His recent publications include Books and Travel (with Jennifer Laing, 2012).