This book examines the nexus between exploring and tourism and argues that exploration travel - based heavily on explorer narratives and the promises of personal challenges and change - is a major trend in future tourism. In particular, it analyses how romanticised myths of explorers form a...

While there have been several quantitative studies about potential motivations for space tourism, there is a lack of qualitative research which explores these motivations in greater scope and depth. This chapter, based on the data gathered from face-to-face, telephone, and online interviews of...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introducing the Explorer Traveller -- Part 1: The Hero’s Journey -- 2. The Call to Adventure -- 3. Preparation and Departure -- 4. The Journey -- 5. The Return -- Part 2: Imagining Explorers -- 6. Fiction and the Myth of the Explorer -- 7. Desert Island Castaways...