Adventure Tourism (eBook, PDF)

Meanings, experience and learning
Redaktion: Taylor, Steve; Johnston, Tony; Varley, Peter

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This timely, edited volume offers new theoretical perspectives of this emerging subset of Tourism. it uses philosophical and cutting edge empirically grounded research to challenge existing thinking and develop the conceptual framework underpinning definitions of adventure, interrogating the adventure tourism experience and further building upon recent advances in adventure education. The book brings together adventure literature from range of disciplines and applies it to focused study of Adventure Tourism. By doing so it significantly furthers understanding and moves forward this development of this area of Tourism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136318986
• Artikelnr.: 38250349

Autorenporträt

Steve Taylor is a researcher at West Highland College, University of the High-lands and Islands. Peter Varley is Director of the Centre for Recreation and Tourism Research at West Highland College, University of the Highlands and Islands. Tony Johnston is a lecturer in Development Geography at King's College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: The Meaning of Adventure 1. The Meaning of Adventure 2. The
Adventure Enigma: An Analysis of Mountain Based Adventure Tourism in
Britain 3. Capturing Meaning as well as Pleasure: A Happiness Study with
Adventure Tourists 4. Pushing Life to the Edge: The Ability of Adventure to
Take the Individual into the World Section 2: The Adventure Experience 5.
Recovering the Forgotten Ground: Narratives of Slow Adventure 6. The
Disneyization of Adventure 7. Profiling Adventure Tourists in Pretoria: A
Comparative Analysis 8. How was it for you? Assessing the Quality of the
Adventure Experience Section 3: Adventure Learning 9. The Demise of the
Outdoor Apprenticeship 10. Structured Feedback in Outdoor Adventure
Education 11. Learning through Adventure