Extreme tourism: Lessons from the world's cold water islands
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Buckley, Ralf
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2007
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Interesting idea and some solid mate-rial, but incompletely digested and inaccurately titled. Baldacchino’s basic thesis is that since tourist destinations on tropical islands have been studied heavily, comparative analyses of tourism to cold water is-lands might provide new insights. He has compiled 14 case studies contributed by individual authors, with four cross-case analyses and a concluding chapter. The case study chapters provide a new and useful compendium of existing data on cold water island tourism destinations, and for this reason alone, the book will be a valuable reference for anyone working on is-land tourism. ...
View more >Interesting idea and some solid mate-rial, but incompletely digested and inaccurately titled. Baldacchino’s basic thesis is that since tourist destinations on tropical islands have been studied heavily, comparative analyses of tourism to cold water is-lands might provide new insights. He has compiled 14 case studies contributed by individual authors, with four cross-case analyses and a concluding chapter. The case study chapters provide a new and useful compendium of existing data on cold water island tourism destinations, and for this reason alone, the book will be a valuable reference for anyone working on is-land tourism. The focus is on the destinations rather than the tour operators, tour products or tourists. The title is something of a misnomer, since there is nothing extreme about a luxury cruise liner or even a so-called expedition cruise. At some of these destinations there are indeed ‘extreme’ tours on offer, such as winter shark dives under ice, but this book does not describe them.
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View more >Interesting idea and some solid mate-rial, but incompletely digested and inaccurately titled. Baldacchino’s basic thesis is that since tourist destinations on tropical islands have been studied heavily, comparative analyses of tourism to cold water is-lands might provide new insights. He has compiled 14 case studies contributed by individual authors, with four cross-case analyses and a concluding chapter. The case study chapters provide a new and useful compendium of existing data on cold water island tourism destinations, and for this reason alone, the book will be a valuable reference for anyone working on is-land tourism. The focus is on the destinations rather than the tour operators, tour products or tourists. The title is something of a misnomer, since there is nothing extreme about a luxury cruise liner or even a so-called expedition cruise. At some of these destinations there are indeed ‘extreme’ tours on offer, such as winter shark dives under ice, but this book does not describe them.
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Journal Title
Journal of Sustainable Tourism
Volume
15
Issue
5
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© 2007 Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version.
Subject
Business and Management
Tourism
Human Geography