Sökning: "adventure tourism"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden adventure tourism.
1. Taking Time and Making Journeys : Narratives on Self and the Other among Backpackers
Sammanfattning : This work addresses the phenomenon of long-term, so-called ‘independent’ travelling, or backpacking, often to destinations described as the ‘third world’. It regards backpacker journeys as arenas for identity work, for expressing individuality and a ‘strong character’. LÄS MER
2. Entreprenørers fortellinger : en identitetsstudie i det opplevelsesbaserte reiselivet
Sammanfattning : This is a narrative study in which five entrepreneurs in the experience-based tourist industry have told their life-stories in connection with their establishing and running their own enterprises. Over the last decades the number of adventure-based companies has markedly increased in tourist industry, but the knowledge gained through the research on the persons who establish these companies is scant. LÄS MER
3. Det extraordinäras lockelse : Luffarturistens bilder och upplevelser
Sammanfattning : This dissertation, The Attraction of the Extraordinary - Images and Experiences Among Backpacker Tourists, is a study based on informal interviews with predominantly Swedish independent travellers, as well as observations and documentary analysis of the backpacker subculture. Backpacking is a type of tourism which has been gradually institutionalized. LÄS MER
4. Hope and rust : Reinterpreting the industrial place in the late 20th century
Sammanfattning : Industrial society has changed thoroughly during the last half a century. In many Western cities and towns, new patterns of production and consumption entailed that centrally located industrial areas became redundant. The once lively workplace and urban core became silent and abandoned, gradually falling into decay. LÄS MER
