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Title Adventure tourism : meaning, experience and learning / edited by Steve Taylor, Peter Varley and Tony Johnston
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility
Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility.
Contents pt. I. The meaning of adventure -- pt. II. Delivering the adventure experience -- pt. III. Adventure learning and education
Summary Adventure tourism is an increasingly widespread phenomenon, appealing to an expanding proportion of the population who seek new destinations and new experiences. This timely, edited volume offers new theoretical perspectives of this emerging subset of Tourism. it uses philosophical and cutting edge empirically grounded research to challenge existing thinking and develop the conceptual framework underpinning definitions of adventure, interrogating the adventure tourism experience and further building upon recent advances in adventure education. The book brings together adventure liter
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 06, 2020)
Subject Adventure travel.
Tourism.
TRAVEL -- Essays & Travelogues.
Adventure travel
Tourism
Form Electronic book
Author Taylor, Steve, editor
Varley, Peter, 1960- editor.
Johnston, Tony (Professor of hospitality and tourism), editor.
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