Format:
xv, 221 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
ISBN:
9780851990521
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0851998631
Content:
New Horizons in Tourism captures the breadth of a new wave of tourism that is becoming more popular world-wide. There is growing demand from tourists for extreme and unusual environments, and amazing and bizarre experiences, ranging from staying in a hotel made of ice to vacationing in space
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Contributors; About the Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Tourism Searching for New Horizons: an Overview; 2 Vacationing in Space: Tourism Seeks 'New Skies'; 3 Tourism in the Forbidden Lands: the Antarctica Experience; 4 Skilled Commercial Adventure: the Edge of Tourism; 5 Tourism Trespasses on the Himalayan Heritage: the Hermit Village, Malana; 6 Thanatourism in the Early 21st Century: Moral Panics, Ulterior Motives and Alterior Desires; 7 Tourism at Borders of Conflict and (De)militarized Zones
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8 Tourism and the Heritage of Atrocity: Managing the Heritage of South African Apartheid for Entertainment9 Deep Ecotourism: Seeking Theoretical and Practical Reverence; 10 Against the Wind - Impermanence in Wilderness: the Tasmanian Experience; 11 Health Tourism in the Kyrgyz Republic: the Soviet Salt Mine Experience; 12 Pro-poor Tourism: Benefiting the Poor; 13 Tourism for the Young-old and Old-old; 14 Volunteer Tourism: New Pilgrimages to the Himalayas; 15 Will Travel Vanish? Looking Beyond the Horizon; Index
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780851998633
Additional Edition:
Print version New Horizons in Tourism : Strange Experiences and Stranger Practices
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Author information:
Singh, Tejvir 1930-2021
