Prelims
The Adventure Tourist: Being, Knowing, Becoming
ISBN: 978-1-80071-850-0, eISBN: 978-1-80071-849-4
Publication date: 20 January 2022
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Farkić, J. and Gebbels, M. (2022), "Prelims", The Adventure Tourist: Being, Knowing, Becoming (The Tourist Experience), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xi. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-849-420211007
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Copyright © 2022 Dr Jelena Farkić and Dr Maria Gebbels
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THE ADVENTURE TOURIST
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THE TOURIST EXPERIENCE
Series editor: Richard Sharpley
The Tourist Experience series addresses a notable gap in the literature on Tourism Studies by foregrounding the tourist experience in a cohesive and thematically structured manner.
Taking a novel approach by presenting both short-form publications and long-form monographs exploring issues in the tourist experience, the series will seek to build a comprehensive set of texts that collectively contribute to critical discourse and understanding of the contemporary tourist experience. Short-form publications will review specific types of tourist by focussing primarily on the influences and nature and significance of their experiences within a socio-cultural framework while longer titles will embrace contemporary empirical and conceptual perspectives and debates as a means of understanding experiences.
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Forthcoming Volumes:
The Responsible Tourist: Conceptualizations, expectations and dilemmas
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The Sport Tourist
Sean James Gammon
The Mindful Tourist: The power of presence in tourism
Uglješa Stankov, Ulrike Gretzel and Viachaslau Filimonau
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THE ADVENTURE TOURIST
Being, Knowing, Becoming
BY
DR JELENA FARKIĆ
University of Greenwich, UK
AND
DR MARIA GEBBELS
University of Greenwich, UK
United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China
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Contents
| List of Figures and Tables | vii |
| About the Authors | ix |
| Acknowledgements | xi |
| 1. Introduction: Being, Knowing, Becoming | 1 |
| 1.1 Conceptualising and Contextualising Adventure | 2 |
| 1.1.1 Adventure as Risk, Challenge and Pushing the Boundaries of the Familiar | 3 |
| 1.1.2 Adventure as Seeking Convenience, Comfort and Wellbeing | 4 |
| 1.2 Book Outline | 5 |
| 2. Enframing Adventure Tourism in 21st Century | 9 |
| 2.1 The Fast, Anxious, Troubled World | 9 |
| 2.2 Adventure Tourism – The Potted History | 11 |
| 2.2.1 The Industry Perspective | 11 |
| 2.2.2 Academic Inquiry | 13 |
| 2.3 Slow Adventure | 16 |
| 2.4 Feminising Adventure | 23 |
| 2.4.1 Constraints to Adventure Tourism | 24 |
| 2.4.2 Negotiation Strategies | 25 |
| 2.4.3 Benefits of Adventure Tourism | 25 |
| 2.5 Summary | 26 |
| 3. Guided Adventures | 33 |
| 3.1 Convenient Adventurers and Commodified Adventures | 33 |
| 3.2 Guides’ Roles, Responsibilities and Competencies | 35 |
| 3.3 The Guides’ Perception of their Role | 38 |
| 3.3.1 Facilitating Immersion, Transformation and Wellbeing | 39 |
| 4. Hospitality in Adventure Tourism | 49 |
| 4.1 Being Implaced | 50 |
| 4.1.1 The Meaning of Home | 51 |
| 4.1.2 The Meaning of Comfort | 53 |
| 4.2 Inviting Hospitality | 54 |
| 4.3 Hospitableness, Reciprocity and Care | 57 |
| 4.4 Hospitable Skills | 58 |
| 4.5 Fostering Hospitality through Adventure Guiding | 60 |
| 5. Constructing Comfort in the Outdoors | 67 |
| 5.1 More-than-human Agency | 68 |
| 5.1.1 Accommodation, Food and Drink | 68 |
| 5.1.2 Technologies and Outdoor Gear | 71 |
| 5.1.3 Outdoor Atmospheres | 73 |
| 5.1.4 Serendipitous Encounters with Wildlife | 75 |
| 5.2 Human Agency | 79 |
| 5.2.1 Communitas | 79 |
| 5.2.2 Friluftsliv | 82 |
| 5.2.3 Hygge | 84 |
| 5.3 Moments of (Dis)Comfort | 86 |
| 5.4 Becoming Comfortable | 88 |
| 6. Future Adventures and New Horizons | 95 |
| 6.1 Passing Presents and Futures | 97 |
| Index | 101 |
List of Figures and Tables
| Figure 1. | Guided Adventure Tour, Nigardsbreen Glacier, Norway. | 34 |
| Figure 2. | Areas of Guides’ Competencies According to the ATGS (2021). | 37 |
| Figure 3. | Outdoor Hospitality Essentials. | 56 |
| Figure 4. | Scallops Cooked on Fire (Ardnish Peninsula, Scotland). | 70 |
| Figure 5. | Protective Gear Enabling Tourist Activities (Isle of Coll, Inner Hebrides, Scotland). | 72 |
| Figure 6. | The Encounter with a Common Seal (Loch Kishorn, Scotland). | 76 |
| Figure 7. | Norwegian Friluftsliv Outing (Sognefjord, Norway). | 83 |
| Figure 8. | Creating Hygge-like Atmospheres in the Outdoors (Arisaig, Scotland). | 86 |
| Table 1. | Hospitable Skills of Outdoor Guides. | 60 |
About the Authors
Dr Jelena Farkić is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Greenwich, London, UK. Prior to joining Greenwich, she gained experience through work in both academia and tourism industry. She has acted as a Coordinator of the Adventure Tourism Research Association activities since 2015 and is a Member of its steering group. Her current research focusses on the ways in which human subjective wellbeing can be enhanced through slow adventure, natural selfness, forest bathing (shinrin-yoku) or hygge. She has published in highly ranked journals such as Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Geographies and Hospitality & Society.
Dr Maria Gebbels is a Programme Leader for MA International Tourism and Hospitality Management at the University of Greenwich. Before joining academia, she has worked in the hospitality industry and has continued her involvement by collaborating with the Institute of Hospitality as an Editorial Member of the HQ magazine. Her latest research focusses on gender issues and women career advancement in hospitality as well as training restaurants in prisons. The outputs of her research have been published in highly ranked journals such as International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management and Work, Employment and Society.
Acknowledgements
Many of the ideas that we played with and put forward in this book emanate from different times, places, moods, conversations, encounters, dreams or aspirations. Securing the resource that had always seemed scarce for putting these ideas together, appeared somewhat more accessible in the year of lockdowns, travel immobilities and all sorts of restrictions. This, in turn, allowed us more time for getting acquainted with hidden corners of our homes, experimenting with different writing positions, and exploring literature we had always wanted to read but never got round to. Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home. As one of the early existentialists told us, dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own, and flourishes. So as ever, for every yin, there is a yang, and we started dwelling in writing these pages, thriving on the extended time at home. What we eventually produced is a story on how to make ourselves comfortable in the world; in the role of an adventure tourist; in the times when more than ever we need to escape, unwind, reset and be looked after.
Some thankyous are in order, we believe. Firstly, humongous thank you to the publishers for supporting our ideas; to the editorial team for being understanding when we needed more time for writing; to the designer who created a fabulous setting inspired by the Great Outdoors for our book cover; to the guides whose voices are heard in this book; to the colleagues and friends who we continually consulted and who provided feedback on some parts of this book; and most importantly, to the members of our families for sending positive vibes and nourishment throughout this process.
We also wish to acknowledge the fact that getting entangled in the process of writing turned to be rather adventurous, yet intrinsically homely: it allowed for dwelling, bonding, sharing, intimacy, small pleasures and comforting moments. And we should thank each other for that.
We also thank you, dear reader, for choosing to read this book, and wish you a very warm welcome to its pages.