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New Horizons in Tourism : Strange Experiences and Stranger Practices.
Title:
New Horizons in Tourism : Strange Experiences and Stranger Practices.
Author:
Singh, T.V.
ISBN:
9780851990521
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (238 pages)
Contents:
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 -- 8 Tourism and the Heritage of Atrocity: Managing the Heritage of South African Apartheid for Entertainment -- 9 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.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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