Explorer Travellers and Adventure Tourism

Jennifer Laing; Warwick Frost

Published by Channel View Publications 2014

Explorer Travellers and Adventure Tourism

Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost

Volume 40 in the series Tourism and Cultural Change

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781845414597

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About this book

This book examines the nexus between exploring and tourism and argues that exploration travel – based heavily on explorer narratives and the promises of personal challenges and change – is a major trend in future tourism.

Author / Editor information

Laing Jennifer :

Jennifer Laing is an Associate Professor in Management at La Trobe University, Australia and her research interests include tourist narratives, heritage tourism and exploring extraordinary tourist experiences.

Frost Warwick :

Warwick Frost is an Associate Professor in Tourism and Events at La Trobe University, Australia, whose research interests include heritage, regional development, events and tourism and the media.

Jennifer Laing is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University, Australia. Her research interests include heritage, events, travel narratives and the interaction between media, popular culture and tourism. She also co-edits the Advances in Event Research series (Routledge) with Warwick Frost.

Warwick Frost is an Associate Professor at La Trobe University, Australia. His research interests include natural and cultural heritage and the interplay between tourism and popular culture. His recent publications include Books and Travel (with Jennifer Laing, 2012).

Reviews

Paul F. Wilkinson, York University, Canada:

The purpose of this review is to give the potential reader a brief sense of the range of issues and of travellers discussed so brilliantly
in this book. It would make a fine addition to the academic literature in any tourism library, personal or institutional. And it is, quite
simply, a good read.

Reidar Johan Mykletun, University of Stavanger, Norway:

This book is absolutely stunning. No dull moments while reading it. Its easy writing style, enlightening and amusing citations from interviews and published texts, and the authors' own reflections tease your inner explorer and adventurer. Look out – your view on travelling will change while reading this meaningful text, and most likely you'll start planning your own expedition.

Szilvia Gyimóthy, Aalborg University, Denmark:

In this topical volume, Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost venture into uncharted conceptual territory to portray the socio-cultural context of explorer travel. In a comprehensive and critical review of archetypal, fictive and autobiographic narratives of the frontier traveler – including seldom depicted female adventurers – they vividly demonstrate how mediatized adventure pursuits affect a wide range of contemporary tourism experiences, also encompassing food explorers and space tourists. A long anticipated cross-disciplinary reconceptualization of the transformative journey!

Paul Beedie, University of Bedfordshire, UK:

Engaging, well-written and concise, this book provides a context for the tourist-traveller debate – a microcosm of social and cultural complexity where the quotidian meets the extraordinary and the economy of colonisation meets the egos of the great explorers. It is this legacy that explains our ongoing fascination with frontier adventure travel from exotic journeys through 'otherness' to space travel.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
1. Introducing the Explorer Traveller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: The Hero’s Journey
2. The Call to Adventure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3. Preparation and Departure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
4. The Journey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
5. The Return Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Part 2: Imagining Explorers
6. Fiction and the Myth of the Explorer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
7. Desert Island Castaways Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
8. Re-enactments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Part 3: Tourists at Play
9. Crossing Borders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
10. On Safari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Part 4: The Future
11. Destination Mars Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
12. The Explorer Traveller: The Myth Continues Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Sources A: Participants Interviewed Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Keywords: future tourism; explorer narratives; imperial explorers; adventure tourism; space travel; contemporary tourism experiences; otherness

eBook

Published: August 1, 2014
ISBN: 9781845414597