Explorer Travellers and Adventure Tourism

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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jennifer Frost, Warwick Frost, Jennifer Laing
• Editore: Channel View Publications
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781845414573
• ISBN: 978-1-84541-457-3
• Pagine: 272
• Dimensioni: 148 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Peso: 356 g
• Serie: Tourism and Cultural Change; Tourism and Cultural Change
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Altro