Handbook of niche tourism. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marina Novelli, Joseph M. Cheer, Claudia Dolezal, Adam Jones, Claudio Milano.
• Editors: Novelli, Marina; Cheer, Joseph M; Dolezal, Claudia; Jones, Adam; Milano, Claudio
• Contents: Contents: Introduction to niche tourism – contemporary trends and development xxiii Marina Novelli, Joseph M. Cheer, Claudia Dolezal, Adam Jones and Claudio Milano PART I NATURE-BASED TOURISM 1 Astro-tourism in the Czech–Polish Izera Dark Sky Park 2 Grzegorz Iwanicki 2 Glacier tourism and climate change in Switzerland 14 Emmanuel Salim 3 Architourism in nature areas: a 'Bilbao effect' in the bush? 25 Ben Wielenga, Stefan Hartman and Jasper Hessel Heslinga 4 Conservation tourism in Pangatalan island, Palawan UNESCO Biosphere Reserve 38 Cristina Abreu, Frédéric Tardieu and António D. Abreu 5 Urban ecotourism and regime altering in Denmark 49 Jane Widtfeldt Meged and Jesper Holm 6 In focus 1 – geocaching tourism in Poland 65 Joanna Kosmaczewska PART II RURAL TOURISM 7 Experiential tea tourism in Asia 69 Lee Jolliffe 8 Agritourism and the Prosecco Route of Italy 84 Marta Soligo 9 Culinary tourism: artichoke from land to table in Spain 99 Francesc Fusté-Forné 10 Astro-tourism in Portugal's rural areas 111 Áurea Rodrigues and Helena Reis 11 Rural festival and event tourism in Albania 124 Enrico Porfido 12 In focus 2 – Koh Phi Phi Thailand: an icon of backpacker culture, victim of film tourism and devastated by crisis 140 Faye Taylor PART III HERITAGE AND CULTURE-BASED TOURISM 13 Personal heritage tourism 144 Heather Kennedy-Eden and Ulrike Gretzel 14 Communist heritage tourism in Poland 158 Robert Pawlusiński, Joanna Kowalczyk-Anioł and Magdalena Kubal-Czerwińska 15 Railways and niche tourism developments in Brazil 172 Carla Fraga 16 Industrial tourism and ceramics-led tourism in Stoke-on-Trent, UK 186 Paul Williams 17 'Escape rooms' and cultural tourism in Poland 200 Andrzej Stasiak 18 Language tourism 218 Montserrat Iglesias 19 In focus 3 – contemporary arts tourism in West Africa 232 Marina Novelli, Maria Pia Bernardoni and Clive Allanso PART IV DARK TOURISM 20 Battlefield tourism: the legacy of Sandakan in Malaysian Borneo 236 Balvinder Kaur Kler and Cassie Perpetua Forsythe 21 Cold War Museum in Lithuania 250 Rasa Pranskūnienė and Viltė Kriščiūnaitė 22 Cemetery tourism in Slovenia 262 Lea Kužnik and Tanja Ostrman Renault 23 In focus 4 – fine dining in a prison: The Clink restaurants in the UK 278 Alison McIntosh, Maria Gebbels and Tracy Harkison PART V SPIRITUAL, RELIGIOUS AND WELLNESS TOURISM 24 Faith, new age spirituality and religious tourism 282 Daniel H. Olsen 25 Babymoon travel in India 300 Senthilkumaran Piramanayagam and Partho Pratim Seal 26 Pilgrimage tourism and the Shugendō programs in Japan 316 Ricardo Nicolas Progano 27 In focus 5 – religious tourism in the urban setting of Varanasi in India 328 K Thirumaran, Simona Azzali, Zilmiyah Kamble, Yash Prabhugaonkar and Manisha Agarwal PART VI SOCIAL AND INCLUSIVE TOURISM 28 Social tourism in Brazil 332 Ernest Cañada 29 Developmentourism and school tours in Zimbabwe 345 Kathleen Smithers and Joanne Ailwood 30 Gay tourism and sustainable rainbow tourist destinations 357 Fabio Corbisiero and Salvatore Monaco 31 The 'albergo diffuso' and tourism revitalization in Southern Italy 371 Dionisia Russo Krauss 32 In focus 6 – the 'Wasteland – Graced Land' story of Melkhoutfontein, South Africa 383 Anthea Rossouw PART VII LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN NICHE TOURISM 33 South Korean 'one-month stay' travellers 388 Jaeyeon Choe 34 Unseen Tours' virtual 'Not-in-a-Pub' quizzes: social inclusion and empowerment in times of COVID-19 401 Claudia Dolezal, Jayni Gudka and Dominic Lapointe 35 In focus 7 – hot air ballooning in the Czech Republic 422 Markéta Novotná and Josef Kunc 36 In focus 8 – flights to nowhere 425 Martine Bakker Index 427.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 338.4791; Tourism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781839100185
• Related ISBNs: 9781839100178
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