Tourism as a dynamic phenomenon has a wonderful capacity to change, adapt and evolve. At the beginning of the 21st Century we are witnessing a growing demand from tourists for amazing and bizarre experiences, and more extreme and unusual environments. Written by leading researchers from around the world, New Horizons in Tourism, examines this new wave of tourism. It presents a host of examples of out-of-the-ordinary tourism including cutting-edge tourism activities such as vacationing in space and discovering the forbidden lands of Antarctica and Arctic regions. It also explores the trends of pro-poor and volunteer tourism, ecotourism, the rise in the number of footloose senior citizens, and the growing attraction of areas of conflict and atrocity.
Researchers and students in tourism
PART 1: The Edge of Tourism
Tourism Searching New Horizons: An Overview, T V Singh
Vacationing in Space: Tourism Seeks New Skies, J Laing and G I Crouch, La Trobe University, Australia
Tourism in the Forbidden Lands: The Antarctica Experience, J Splettstoesser, Waconia, USA, D Landau, International Association of Antarctica Tourism, and R K Headland, University of Cambridge, UK
Skilled Commercial Adventure: The Edge of Tourism, R Buckley, Griffith University, Australia
Tourism Trespasses the Himalayan Heritage: The Hermit Village, Malana, T V Singh, P Chauhan, Government of Himachal Pradesh, India, and S Singh, Brock University, CanadaPART 2: The Macabre in Tourism
Thanatourism in the Early 21st Century: Moral Panics, Ulterior Motives, and Alterior Desires, A V Seaton, University of Luton, UK, and J J Lennon, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
Tourism at the Borders of Conflict and (De)militarized Zones, D J Timothy, Arizona State University, USA, B Prideaux, James Cook University, Australia, and S SeongSeop-Kim, Sejong University, Republic of Korea
Tourism and the Heritage of Atrocity: Managing the Heritage of South African Apartheid for Entertainment, G J Ashworth, University of Groningen, The NetherlandsPART 3: The Unconventional in Tourism
Deep Ecotourism: Seeking Theoretical and Practical Reverence, D A Fennell, Brock University, Canada
Against the Wind - Impermanence in Wilderness: The Tasmanian Experience, T H B Sofield, University of Tasmania, Australia
Health Tourism in Kyrgyz Republic: The Soviet Salt mine Experience, P Schofield, University of Salford, UKPART 4: Tourism For the Poor, Old and Humankind
Pro-Poor Tourism: Benefiting the Poor, D Roe, International Institute for Environment and Development, UK, H Goodwin, University of Greenwich, UK, C Ashley, Overseas Development Institute, UK
Tourism for the Old-Young and Old-Old , M Cleaver Sellick, Central Washington University, USA, and T E Muller, Griffith University, Australia
Volunteer Tourism: New Pilgrimages to the Himalayas, S Singh and T V SinghPART 5: The Future
Will Tourism Vanish? Looking beyond the Horizon, J Aramberri, Drexel University, USA