New horizons in tourism : strange experiences and stranger practices / edited by Tej Vir Singh.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., c2004.Description: xv, 221 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN: - 0851998631 (alk. paper)
- 338.4791 SIN
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 338.4791 SIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 39002100329706 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references.
Tourism searching for new horizons : an overview / Tej Vir Singh -- Vacationing in space : tourism seeks \'new skies\' / Jennifer Laing and Geoffrey I. Crouch -- Tourism in the forbidden lands : the Antarctica experience / John Splettstoesser, Denise Landau and R.K. Headland -- Skilled commercial adventure : the edge of tourism / Ralf Buckley -- Tourism trespasses on the Himalayan heritage : the hermit village, Malana / Tej Vir Singh, Purnima Chauhan and Shalini Singh -- Thanatourism in the early 21st century : moral panics, ulterior motives and alterior desires / A.V. Seaton and J.J. Lennon --Tourism at the borders of conflict and (de)militarized zones / Dallen J. Timothy, Bruce Prideaux and Samuel Seongseop-Kim -- Tourism and the heritage of atrocity : managing the heritage of South African apartheid for entertainment / G.J. Ashworth -- Deep ecotourism : seeking theoretical and practical reverence / David A. Fennell -- Against the wind : impermanence in wilderness : the Tasmanian experience / Trevor H.B. Sofield -- Health tourism in Kyrgyz Republic : the Soviet salt mine experience / Peter Schofield -- Pro-poor tourism : benefiting the poor / Dilys Roe, Harold Goodwin and Caroline Ashley -- Tourism for the young-old and old-old / Megan Cleaver Sellick and Thomas E. Muller -- Volunteer tourism : new pilgrimages to the Himalayas / Shalini Singh and Tej Vir Singh -- Will travel vanish? Looking beyond the horizon / Julio R. Aramberri.