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Autore: |
Buckley R C
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Titolo: |
Adventure Tourism [[electronic resource]]
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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 |
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