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基本信息·出版社:A Butterworth-Heinemann Title
·页码:368 页
·出版日期:2003年05月
·ISBN:0750651865
·条形码:9780750651868
·装帧:平装
·正文语种:英语
内容简介 Looking at the past, present and future of adventure tourism,
Adventure Tourism: the new frontier examines the product, the adventure tourist profile, and issues such as supply, geography and sustainability. International case studies are used to illustrate these issues, including: Gorilla watching holidays,Trekking on Mount Everest, Diving holidays, and Outward Bound packages.
Analysis of the development and nature of adventure tourism accompanies these studies, ensuring that the title is useful both for undergraduate and postgraduate students of tourism and for professionals involved in managing adventure tourism enterprises.
There is also a companion website with additional cases, which can be found at www.bh/com/companions/0750651865.
* International case studies, including wilderness tourism in Siberia, rock-climbing based tourism in Spain and mountain tourism in Greece
* Unique treatment of the subject
* A respected team of authors
作者简介 Head of Tourism and Hospitality, Sheffield Hallam University and Professeur Visitant at IMHI Paris. John is the author of seven books on tourism and has been a keynote speaker at major international conferences in many countries including the UK, Russia, Greece, Indonesia, Portugal, Turkey, Sri Lanka and Brazil. He is also Chair of ATLAS,the association of universities involved in Tourism Education and research.
媒体推荐 "'Adventure Tourism: The new frontier' is an essential introduction to the adventure tourism sector for both tertiary students of tourism and professionals working in the tourism industry, as it offers a unique analysis of this fast expanding niche sector...The book will prove accessible to its non-academic audience, while providng a useful reference and first port of call for those researching in this sector and a textbook for tourism academics teaching undergraduate or postgraduate courses in this area." -Tim Bentley, Department of International Business Massey, Aukland, New Zealand "...provides a much needed analysis of this expanding sector of the international tourism market, and is a useful compliation of current knowledge and thought in this area." - Tourism Management
编辑推荐 "'Adventure Tourism: The new frontier' is an essential introduction to the adventure tourism sector for both tertiary students of tourism and professionals working in the tourism industry, as it offers a unique analysis of this fast expanding niche sector....The book will prove accessible to its non-academic audience, while providng a useful reference and first port of call for those researching in this sector and a textbook for tourism academics teaching undergraduate or postgraduate courses in this area."
-Tim Bentley, Department of International Business Massey, Aukland, New Zealand
"...provides a much needed analysis of this expanding sector of the international tourism market, and is a useful compliation of current knowledge and thought in this area."
- Tourism Management
专业书评 Looking at the past, present and future of adventure tourism, this text examines the product and its variances, the adventure tourist and issues such as supply, geography and sustainability. International case studies are used to illustrate these issues, for example:* Gorilla watching holidays* Trekking on Mount Everest* Diving holidays* Outward Bound and the Adventure Island, Singapore.Well-reasoned and succinct analysis of the development and nature of adventure tourism accompanies these studies, ensuring that the title is useful both for undergraduate and postgraduate students of tourism and for professionals involved in managing adventure tourism enterprises.