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Adventure tourism: a perspective paper

Tourism Review, 2019

Purpose This paper aims to demonstrate the importance of adventure tourism in tourism the tourism industry and in tourism research. Apart from giving an overview of current literature and discussion, this paper also looks into future trends in adventure tourism. Design/methodology/approach This paper looks at the state of the art of adventure tourism re-search and discusses current trends. Based on literature, it gives an overview of the development of adventure tourism, the current situation and how adventure tourism will develop in the future. Findings This paper discusses the development of research in the field of adventure tourism and propagates that research should be increasingly focussing on theory building. The work by Rantala and Rokenses (2016) was the much-needed kick-start to lay the groundwork for a theoretical framework. The last few years have seen a rise in older tourists embarking for adventure trips, as well as families. Younger adults seek microadventures nearby ...

Conceptualising family adventure tourist motivations, experiences and benefits

2017

Objectives | 1. To provide insights into family adventure tourists relative to their motivations, collective experiences while on adventure holidays, and the benefits that they gain from these experiences. 2. To synthesise and reflect on previous research pertaining to family tourists, family recreationists, adventure tourists and recreational adventurers, and the application of this knowledge to family adventure tourists. 3. To develop a theoretically grounded perspective of family adventure tourists in the form of a conceptual framework which demonstrates extant understanding of this market and proposes suggestions for further research. Methodology | The work reviews existing research pertinent to family adventure tourists, and develops a conceptual framework to highlight current understanding of these tourists. It explores three key themes related to the aforementioned objectives. Firstly, it considers the motivations of family adventure tourists. Secondly, it explores the experi...

adventure tourism literature review

This paper provides a review of current literature in regard to defining adventure tourism. Adventure tourism is a substantial industry sector which to date has received relatively little research attention.

Adventure tourism as a research tool in non-tourism disciplines

Tourism Recreation Research, 2014

Tourism research can gain broader academic recognition if findings from tourism research become relevant to, and cited within, other academic disciplines. Adventure tourism can provide opportunities for ground breaking research on wide-ranging issues such as: motivations for human mobility; individual economic valuation of high-rarity, low-probability experiences; volunteer assumption of physical personal risk, and its legal consequences; positive and negative effects of tourism on conservation; psychological models of human emotions; the anthropology of interactions between highly disparate human cultures; the use of autoethnography as a research tool; construction of social capital and cohesion; altruistic or competitive behaviour under severe stress; the design of communications systems; establishment and operation of human relationships involving extreme personality types; the physiology of acute stress; and human perceptions of risk and emotion, the passage of time, and the purpose of life. From an academic perspective, adventure tourism is much more than simply a substantial subsector of the mass tourism industry. It is an opportunity to conduct more widely relevant and recognized research, publishable in tourism journals yet also citeable in other disciplines. Keywords: adventure tourism experiences; research tool; cross- disciplinary research.

A phenomenological view of the behavioural tourism research literature

International Journal of Culture Tourism and Hospitality Research

Purpose ‐ This paper aims to discuss a framework in which the behavioural tourism and leisure literature is organised. It seeks to demonstrate the practical use of Gnoth's Tourism Experience Model (TEM), and provide future directions in holiday tourism research. Design/methodology/approach ‐ The paper takes a phenomenological approach to tourists' experiencing as a critical and productive tool for tourism development. The literature reviewed is structured through the four modes of experiencing outlined in the TEM: experience as pure pleasure, as re-discovery, as existentially authentic exploration, and as knowledge seeking. Findings ‐ The TEM provides a model for all potential experiencing, that is, it models the boundaries of what experiencing could be throughout the tourist journey. The discussion of the literature also shows that, in many occasions, different experiential stages, states and modes of feeling await far more detailed research. Originality/value ‐ The paper h...

Mountaineering adventure tourists: a conceptual framework for research

Tourism Management, 2006

Mountaineering has emerged as a popular form of adventure tourism, yet there is scant research that develops an understanding of its participants. This paper contributes to a theoretical understanding of mountaineer adventure tourists by evaluating previous work on mountaineering, mountaineers, adventure, recreation and tourism. It uses this to develop a conceptual framework to examine mountaineer adventure tourists, the key influences on their participation in mountaineering and their actual experiences during involvement. In this framework a number of influences encourage participation.