New Horizons in Tourism : Strange Experiences and Stranger Practices

New Horizons in Tourism captures the breadth of a new wave of tourism that is becoming more popular world-wide.

There is growing demand from tourists for extreme and unusual environments, and amazing and bizarre experiences, ranging from staying in a hotel made of ice to vacationing in space.

This volume presents a few out-of-the-ordinary instances of peripheries overtaken by tourism and the experiences they offer, including pro-poor tourism, deep ecotourism, dark tourism, senior tourism, volunteer tourism and space tourism.