Adventure Tourism [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Buckley R C
• Pubblicazione: CABI, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (535 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4791
• Soggetto topico: Adventure travel; Tourism; Travel; Geography; Travel & Tourism; Earth & Environmental Sciences
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; Lists of Tables and Figures; Preface; Disclaimer; 1 Introduction; Aims and Scope; Defining Adventure Tourism; Difficult Distinctions; Social Contexts and Changes; Equipment, Clothing and Entertainment; Overlaps with Other Subsectors; Information on Adventure Tours; Base and Apex of the Adventure Sector; Skill, Risk, Reward, Remoteness; Evolution of Skilled Adventure Tours in Remote Areas; Structure of Adventure Subsectors; 2 Adventure Recreation Research; Adventure in Tourism and Recreation Texts; Products; Impacts; Risks and Accidents ; Participant Perceptions and Psychology3 Case Study Approach; On-site Audits and Activity Sector; Advantages and Limitations of Case Studies; Parameters and Products; Access and Sponsorship; Limitations on Scope; Academic Disciplines, Methods and Data; Experience, Audits and Case Studies; 4 River Journeys; Sector Structure; Yangbi River, China: Earth Science Expeditions; Qamdo Gorge of the Mekong, Tibet: Shangri-La River Expeditions; Chuya and Katun Rivers, Russia: Team Gorky; Sun Khosi, Karnali, Trisuli, Marsyangdi, Nepal: David Allardice's Ultimate Descents ; Drysdale River, Australia: Raleigh International and NOLSJatapu River, Brazil: Fabio Bueno Neto and Carlos Colares; 5 Whitewater Kayaking; Futaleufu River, Chile: Expediciones Chile; Reventazon, Pacuare, Pejibaye and Sarapiqui, Costa Rica: Endless River Adventures; Karamea River, New Zealand: Ultimate Descents NZ; Colorado Grand Canyon, USA: Expeditions Inc. and Others; Franklin River, Australia: World Expeditions; Upper Zambezi, Zimbabwe: Various Operators; 6 Whitewater Rafting; White Nile, Uganda: Adrift; Zambezi River, Zimbabwe: Shearwater Adventures ; Nymboida River, Australia: World Expeditions, Wildwater Adventures and OthersRio Toachi and Rio Blanco, Ecuador: Yacu Amu Rafting and Rios Ecuador; 'Luva River, Fiji: Rivers Fiji; Tully River, Australia: Raging Thunder, R'n'R; Kawarau River, New Zealand: Various Operators; Shotover River, New Zealand: Various Operators; Rangitata River, New Zealand: Rangitata Rafts; 7 Seakayaking; Sector Structure; Baffin Island, Canada: Blackfeather Inc.; Svalbard, Norway: Southern Sea Ventures and Aurora Expeditions; Prince William Sound, Alaska: National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) ; Yasawa Islands, Fiji: Southern Sea VenturesHinchinbrook Island, Australia: Southern Sea Ventures and World Expeditions; Abel Tasman National Park, New Zealand: Ocean River and Natural High; Phang Nga Bay, Thailand: John Gray's Sea Canoe; 8 Sailing; Sector Structure; Scotland to Faeroes: Private Yacht; Bay of Islands, New Zealand: Various Operators; Baja Peninsula, Mexico: NOLS Mexico; 9 Expedition Cruises; Sector Structure; South Georgia and Antarctic Peninsula: Abercrombie and Kent, Explorer Shipping; Svalbard: Aurora Expeditions; Sepik River, Papua New Guinea: Various Operators; 10 Diving ; Sector Structure
• Sommario/riassunto: Adventure tourism is a new, rapidly growing area at both practical and academic levels. Written at an introductory level, Adventure Tourism provides a basic background and covers commercial adventure tourism products across a range of adventure tourism sectors.
• Altri titoli varianti: CAB International Book Archive, titles from 2005, 2006, 2007
• Titolo autorizzato: Adventure Tourism
• ISBN: 1-280-73606-2; 9786610736065; 1-84593-123-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910289159203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II