Extreme Tourism
Subtitle: Lessons from the World's Cold Water Islands (Advances in Tourism Research)
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Published: June 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780080446561
Subjects: Tourism industry; Islands; Former Soviet Republics; Travel; Travel - General; Industries - General; Australasia, Oceania & Other Land Areas; Canada; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Tourism; General; Travel / General; Cold regions; Australia & Oceania - General; Case studies; Economic aspects
First sentence: How does the tourism industry promote "island-ness" when it seems to be so unilaterally associated with the paradise myth of the tropical, exotic and erotic?