New horizons in tourism
Subtitle: strange experiences and stranger practices
By: edited by Tej Vir Singh.
Contributors: Singh, Tejvir, 1930-
Publisher: CABI Pub.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Oxfordshire, UK; Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Tourism; Adventure and adventurers; Heritage tourism
Description: "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 holidaying in space. This volume presents a few out-of-the-ordinary instances of peripheries overtaken by tourism and the experiences they offer, including pro-poor tourism, deep ecotourism, dark tourism, senior tourism, volunteer tourism and space tourism." "The book will be of significant interest to both students and researchers in tourism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tourism searching for new horizons : an overview / Tej Vir Singh; title: Vacationing in space : tourism seeks 'new skies' / Jennifer Laing and Geoffrey I. Crouch; title: Tourism in the forbidden lands : the Antarctica experience / John Splettstoesser, Denise Landau and R.K. Headland; title: Skilled commercial adventure : the edge of tourism / Ralf Buckley; title: Tourism trespasses on the Himalayan heritage : the hermit village, Malana / Tej Vir Singh, Purnima Chauhan and Shalini Singh; title: Thanatourism in the early 21st century : moral panics, ulterior motives and alterior desires / A.V. Seaton and J.J. Lennon; title: Tourism at the borders of conflict and (de)militarized zones / Dallen J. Timothy, Bruce Prideaux and Samuel Seongseop-Kim; title: Tourism and the heritage of atrocity : managing the heritage of South African apartheid for entertainment / G.J. Ashworth; title: Deep ecotourism : seeking theoretical and practical reverence / David A. Fennell; title: Against the wind : impermanence in wilderness : the Tasmanian experience / Trevor H.B. Sofield; title: Health tourism in Kyrgyz Republic : the Soviet salt mine experience / Peter Schofield; title: Pro-poor tourism : benefiting the poor / Dilys Roe, Harold Goodwin and Caroline Ashley; title: Tourism for the young-old and old-old / Megan Cleaver Sellick and Thomas E. Muller; title: Volunteer tourism : new pilgrimages to the Himalayas / Shalini Singh and Tej Vir Singh; title: Will travel vanish? Looking beyond the horizon / Julio R. Aramberri.