Adventure tourism: the freedom to play with reality

• Main Author: Kane, Maurice J
• Other Authors: Tucker, Hazel
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Adventure tourism; kayaking; serious leisure; narrated identity; accelerated short-lived society; HF Commerce; HF5601 Accounting; GV Recreation Leisure; H Social Sciences (General); Ahola; Arctic; Atkinson; Beck; Brannan; Buckley; Burton; Butterworth; Chapel Hill; Coleman; Donnelly; Dover; Fontana; Goodale; Greenland; Harcourt; Harper; Haskell; Holloway; Jokinen; Kay; Kayak; Locke; McArthur; McIntosh; Meier; Mercer; Methuen; Morrison; Nash; New Zealand; Otnes; Pacific; Rae; Riley; Ritchie; Selwyn; Strauss; Sullivan; Unwin; Weaver; Webb
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/1267

157 leaves :ill. 30 cm. Includes bibliographical references. "December 2002". Adventure tourism is defined and marketed as an experience of excitement, danger and risk. Contained in the understanding of risk is the potential of loss, injury and death. Are tourists paying for the potential...