Mountain Tourism, Altitude and Host-Guest Relationships

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-62335-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Tourism and Hospitality

This insightful volume critically explores whether higher altitude of habitation affects host-guest exchanges in mountaineering tourism, in an effort to better understand and manage vulnerable destinations in a sustainable manner.

The book is based on empirical research conducted in the Mount Everest area in Nepal, part of the Sagarmatha National Park, which is a popular destination among tourists engaging in high-altitude mountaineering (subdivided into hiking, trekking and mountain climbing). By doing so it offers essential knowledge of mountaineering tourism whilst detailing recent developments linked to the diversification, commodification and commercialisation of mountaineering activity. This is discussed alongside the potentially positive impacts for marginalised high mountain communities.

This book is essential reading for students, academics, industry representatives and policymakers with an interest in adventure tourism and mountaineering.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Apollo, Michal

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of figures xi

List of tables xiii

About the author xiv

Foreward by Dallen J. Timothy xvi

Preface xix

Acknowledgements xxi

1.Mountain tourism, altitude and horizontal zoning in relations between hosts and guests 1

2.Conceptual framework and methodological approach to research on host-guest relations in mountain areas 26

3.Phenomenon of the spatial and altitude factor in host-guest relationships (quantitative approach) 43

4.The reality of altitude of habitation on host-guest relationships (qualitative approach) 72

5.Altitude factor in host-guest relationships: altitude, zone, and possible reason 119

6.Management Implications 139

7.From euphoria to antagonism - the Irritation Index in the context of mountain tourism 154

Index 161

Über Autor(innen)

Michal Apollo is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, and Fellow of Yale University’s Global Justice Program, USA. He specialises in tourism management, consumer behaviour, and environmental and socio-economic issues. In his main research field, he focuses on human presence and well-being in high mountain regions. Michal is also an enthusiastic mountaineer, ultra-runner, diver, sailor, photographer, science populariser and NGO activist.