Niche Tourism
Contemporary issues, trends and cases
- 1st Edition - November 25, 2004
- Latest edition
- Editor: Marina Novelli
- Language: English
Niche Tourism examines one of the fastest growing areas within the tourism sector. This book provides an integrated picture of speciality/niche tourism as a whole looking at both… Read more
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Description
Description
Niche Tourism examines one of the fastest growing areas within the tourism sector.
This book provides an integrated picture of speciality/niche tourism as a whole looking at both the 'macro' and 'micro' niche area. It has a comprehensive theoretical framework, and discusses initiatives, policies and strategies adopted internationally. With an emphasis on linking theory to practice, it is underpinned by up-to-date international case studies from around the world.
Divided into 3 parts, it covers a variety of aspects under the headings of special interest tourism, tradition and culture base tourism and activity-based tourism.
This book provides an integrated picture of speciality/niche tourism as a whole looking at both the 'macro' and 'micro' niche area. It has a comprehensive theoretical framework, and discusses initiatives, policies and strategies adopted internationally. With an emphasis on linking theory to practice, it is underpinned by up-to-date international case studies from around the world.
Divided into 3 parts, it covers a variety of aspects under the headings of special interest tourism, tradition and culture base tourism and activity-based tourism.
Key features
Key features
* The only book to provide an integrated picture of speciality/niche tourism as a whole
* Examines one of the fastest growing areas of the tourism sector
* Looks at a vast array of aspects of tourism from dark tourism, looking at 'ground zero' in the US, gastronomic tourism in the Yarra Valley Australia, to tribal tourism in Africa.
* Examines one of the fastest growing areas of the tourism sector
* Looks at a vast array of aspects of tourism from dark tourism, looking at 'ground zero' in the US, gastronomic tourism in the Yarra Valley Australia, to tribal tourism in Africa.
Readership
Readership
Undergraduate levels 3-4; postgraduate tourism management students; practitioners, consultants and providers (e.g. tourist groups) as a reference guide
Table of contents
Table of contents
Foreword (Robinson); Niche Tourism: An Introduction (Robinson & Novelli); Part one - Special Interest Tourism; Photographic tourism (Palmer & Lester); Geotourism (Hose); Youth tourism (Richards & Wilson); Dark tourism (Tarlow); Genealogy tourism (Birtwistle); Gastronomic tourism (Hall & Mitchell); Transport tourism (Hall); Part two - Tradition and Culture Based Tourism; Tribal tourism (Burns & Figurova); Cultural heritage tourism (Wickens); Tourism in peripheral regions (Ivona & Grumo); Research tourism (Benson); Part three - Activity Based Tourism; Small ship cruising(Douglas & Douglas); Sport tourism (Ritchie); Wildlife tourism (Novelli & Humavindu); Volunteer tourism (Callanan & Thomas); Adventure tourism (Shephard & Evans); Part four - The Future of Niche Tourism; Space tourism (Duval); Virtual tourism (Arnold); Ethical tourism (Weeden); Niche Tourism: A way forward to sustainability (Novelli & Benson); Index.
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: February 22, 2005
- Language: English
About the editor
About the editor
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Marina Novelli
Affiliations and expertise
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