Adventure tourism : meanings, experience and learning /
Series: Contemporary gepgraphies of leisure, tourism and mobility 36.Publisher: Abdingdon, Oxon, England : Routledge, 2013Description: xiv, 192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138081741; 9781138081741:; 1138081744.Subject(s): Culture and tourism | Adventure travel | Tourism | Sports and tourismDDC classification: 338.4791Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Include bibliographic references (pages 161-184) and index.
List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction / Peter Varley and Steve Taylor -- The meaning of adventure / Tony Johnston -- The meaning of adventure / Carl Cater -- The adventure enigma : an analysis of mountain-based adventure tourism in Britain / Paul Beedie -- Discovering what matters in a perfect day : a study of well-being of adventure tourists / Sebastian Filep, Louise Munk Klint, Dale Dominey-Howes and Terry DeLacey -- Pushing life to the edge of life : the ability of adventure to take the individual into the world / Georgie Urry -- Delivering the adventure experience / Steve Taylor -- The semiotics of slow adventure : narrative and identity / Tristan Semple -- Eat, play, shop : the Disneyization of adventure / Simon Beames and Peter Varley -- Profiling adventure tourists in Pretoria : a comparative analysis / Melissa Janette Lotter, Sue Geldenhuys and Marius Potgeiter -- How was it for you? Assessing the quality of the adventure experience / Antoine Bauer -- Adventure learning and education / peter Varley -- The demise of the outdoor apprenticeship / Ashley Hardwell -- Structured feedback in outdoor adventure education : what are we accomplishing? / Frank Vernon -- Learning outcomes of young people on a Greenland expedition : assessing the educational value of adventure tourism / Tim Stott, Pete Allison and Kris von Wald.
Adventure tourism is an increasingly widespread phenomenon, appealing to an expanding proportion of the population who seek new destinations and new experiences. This volume offers theoretical perspectives of this emerging subset of tourism.