Colin Beard, John Swarbrooke, Suzanne Leckie, Gill Pomfret

Adventure Tourism (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Looking at the past, present and future of adventure tourism, Adventure Tourism: the new frontier examines the product, the adventure tourist profile, and issues such as supply, geography and sustainability. International case studies are used to illustrate these issues, including: Gorilla watching holidays,Trekking on Mount Everest, Diving holidays, and Outward Bound packages.

Analysis of the development and nature of adventure tourism accompanies these studies, ensuring that the title is useful both for undergraduate and postgraduate students of tourism and for professionals involved in managing adventure tourism enterprises.

There is also a companion website with additional cases, which can be found at www.bh/com/companions/0750651865.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136430626
• Artikelnr.: 38252298

Autorenporträt

John Swarbrooke, Colin Beard, Suzanne Leckie, Gill Pomfret

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The historical development of adventure tourism
The sources of adventure
The milieu of adventure tourism
Outdoor adventure and management training
Artificial environments for adventure tourism
Mental adventure tourism
The adventure tourist
The supply side of adventure tourism
The geography of adventure tourism
The impacts of adventure tourism
Topical issues and the future of adventure tourism
Case studies.