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1 online resource (385 pages) |
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Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility |
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Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility.
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| Contents |
Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Dedication ; Table of Contents ; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Mountaineering tourism: activity, people and place; Part I Activity; 2 A world geography of mountain trekking; 3 A history of mountaineering tourism; Case study 1: early development of mountain recreation in New Zealand and the place of risk; Case study 2: mountaineering tourism in Taiwan: hiking the '100 mountains'; 4 Concepts of the wilderness experience and adventure mountaineering tourism |
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5 Guided mountaineeringCase study 3: Southern Alps Guiding: a case study of guided mountaineering businesses in New Zealand; 6 Early alpine club culture and mountaineering literature; Part II People; 7 The narrative construction of self through a commitment to mountaineering; 8 Gender and mountaineering tourism; 9 The motivations and satisfactions attendant to mountaineering; Case study 4: the mountaineering flow experience; 10 Mountaineering tourism experience and the protective frame: a reversal theory perspective; 11 Mountaineering personality and risk |
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Case study 5: measuring responsible behaviour related to safety and security and its antecedents among climbers on Mt Kinabalu, BorneoPart III Place; 12 Environmental impacts of mountaineering; Case study 6: mountaineering and climate change; Case study 7: managing human waste on Aconcagua; 13 Mountaineering, commodification and risk perceptions in Nepal's Mt Everest region; Case study 8: mountaineering on Mt Everest: evolution, economy, ecology and ethics; 14 Climbing Kili: ethical mountain guides on the roof of Africa |
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Case study 9: the working conditions of Wagumu (high altitude porters) on Mt Kilimanjaro15 Health and safety issues in mountaineering tourism; 16 Management perspectives of mountaineering tourism; 17 Mountaineering tourism: looking to the horizon; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Higham, James
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Thompson- Carr, Anna
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| ISBN |
9781315769202 |
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1315769204 |
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