Taking Tourism to the Limits: Issues, concepts and managerial perspectives (Advances in Tourism Research)

"Taking Tourism to the Limits explores concepts and challenges facing contemporary tourism in five main sections, namely in tourism planning and management, nature based tourism, dark tourism, adventure and sport tourism and the accommodation industry. Drawing upon case studies, current research and conceptualizations these different facets of the 'limits' are each introduced by the editors with commentaries that seek to identify themes, current practice and thinking in the respective domains."--Jacket. Read more... Content: Copyright , Page iv Contributors , Pages xv-xxii Acknowledgments , Page xxiii Chapter 1 - Introduction — Conceptualising “the Limit” , Pages 1-6 , Chris Ryan, Michelle Aicken Chapter 2 - Tourism Planning and Management , Pages 9-14 , Stephen J. Page Chapter 3 - The Muskwa-Kechika Management Area —The Failed Planning and Management of the Serengeti of the North , Pages 15-31 , Paul Mitchell-Banks Chapter 4 - Monitoring Visitor Patterns of Use in Natural Tourist Destinations , Pages 33-52 , Colin Arrowsmith, Dino Zanon, Prem Chhetri Chapter 5 - The Use of Strategic Visioning to Enhance Local Tourism Planning in Periphery Communities , Pages 53-63 , Lisa Ruhanen, Chris Cooper Chapter 6 - The Development of a Regional Identity for the Macarthur Region , Pages 65-74 , Sharon Kemp Chapter 7 - Nature-Based Tourism , Pages 77-81 , Stephen J. Page Chapter 8 - Making Ecotourism Work: An Assessment of the Value of an Environmental Education Programme on a Marine Mammal Tour in New Zealand , Pages 83-98 , Mark Orams, Amy Taylor Chapter 9 - The Politics of Ecotourism , Pages 99-112 , Rosaleen Duffy Chapter 10 - African Wilderness® Pty Ltd: An Authentic Encounter with the Big Five, Death and the Meaning of Life , Pages 113-128 , Malcolm Draper Chapter 11 - The Limits of Tourism in Parks and Protected Areas: Managing Carrying Capacity in the U.S. National Parks , Pages 129-139 , Robert Manning Chapter 12 - Adventure and Sport Tourism Chapter 12. Adventure Tourism and Sport — An Introduction , Pages 143-147 , Chris Ryan, Birgit Trauer Chapter 13 - Acquiring Status Through the Consumption of Adventure Tourism , Pages 149-154 , Shelagh Ferguson, Sarah Todd Chapter 14 - Looking the Part: The Relationship Between Adventure Tourism and the Outdoor Fashion Industry , Pages 155-163 , Carl Cater Chapter 15 - Getting into the Spirit: Using Internet Information Search to Heighten Emotions in Anticipation of the Sport Tourism Experience , Pages 165-171 , Tracey Harrison-Hill Chapter 16 - Adventurism: Singapore Adventure Tourists in “Soft” Capitalism , Pages 173-183 , OngChin Ee Chapter 17 - Dark Tourism — An Introduction , Pages 187-190 , Chris Ryan Chapter 18 - Motivations of Participants in Dark Tourism: A Case Study of Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia , Pages 191-198 , Tanaya Preece, Garry G. Price Chapter 19 - Presentation of Dark Tourism: Te Wairoa, The Buried Village , Pages 199-213 , Nell Smith, W.Glen Croy Chapter 20 - Travels to the Edge of Darkness: Towards a Typology of “Dark Tourism” , Pages 215-226 , Richard Sharpley Chapter 21 - Trends in the Accommodation Sector —An Introduction , Pages 229-232 , Chris Ryan Chapter 22 - Organisation Culture as a Method of Shaping and Planning Behaviour in a Hospitality Organisation , Pages 233-251 , Sharon Kemp Chapter 23 - The Role of Innovation in Enhancing Sustainability: A Case Study on the Motel Sector , Pages 253-265 , Linda Roberts, Leo Jago Chapter 24 - Accommodation — The New Entertainment Centre , Pages 267-274 , Asad Mohsin, Tim Lockyer References , Pages 275-297 Subject Index , Pages 299-302 The concept of margins and limits is often referred to within the tourism academic literature and includes subjects as diverse as carrying capacities, peripheral economies, technological advancement, adventure tourism, dark tourism and socially marginalized communities. After identifying a number of ways in which 'limits' might be defined Taking Tourism to the Limits explores concepts and challenges facing contemporary tourism in five main sections, namely in tourism planning and management, nature based tourism, dark tourism, adventure and sport tourism and the accommodation industry. Drawing upon case studies, current research and conceptualizations these different facets of the 'limits' are each introduced by the editors with commentaries that seek to identify themes and current practice and thinking in the respective domains. The picture that emerges is of an industry that reinvents itself in response to changing market parameters even while core issues of stakeholder equities and political processes remain problematic. International in scale, the book links with its companion piece Indigenous Tourism - the commodification and management of culture (also published by Elsevier) as an outcome of the very highly successful conference, Taking Tourism to the Limits hosted by the University of Waikato' Department of Tourism Management in 2003