Handbook of Niche Tourism

Edited by Marina Novelli, Professor of Tourism and International Development, School of Business and Law, University of Brighton, UK, Joseph M. Cheer, Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Heritage, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University, Australia, Claudia Dolezal, Senior Lecturer and Researcher, Institute of Tourism, Wine Business and Marketing, IMC University of Applied Sciences, Austria, Adam Jones, Principal Lecturer of Strategy and Enterprise, School of Business and Law, University of Brighton, UK and Claudio Milano, Adjunct Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Contents:

Introduction to niche tourism – contemporary trends and development xxiii
Marina Novelli, Joseph M. Cheer, Claudia Dolezal, Adam Jones and Claudio Milano

PART I NATURE-BASED TOURISM
1 Astro-tourism in the Czech–Polish Izera Dark Sky Park 2
Grzegorz Iwanicki
2 Glacier tourism and climate change in Switzerland 14
Emmanuel Salim
3 Architourism in nature areas: a ‘Bilbao effect’ in the bush? 25
Ben Wielenga, Stefan Hartman and Jasper Hessel Heslinga
4 Conservation tourism in Pangatalan island, Palawan UNESCO
Biosphere Reserve 38
Cristina Abreu, Frédéric Tardieu and António D. Abreu
5 Urban ecotourism and regime altering in Denmark 49
Jane Widtfeldt Meged and Jesper Holm
6 In focus 1 – geocaching tourism in Poland 65
Joanna Kosmaczewska

PART II RURAL TOURISM
7 Experiential tea tourism in Asia 69
Lee Jolliffe
8 Agritourism and the Prosecco Route of Italy 84
Marta Soligo
9 Culinary tourism: artichoke from land to table in Spain 99
Francesc Fusté-Forné
10 Astro-tourism in Portugal’s rural areas 111
Áurea Rodrigues and Helena Reis
11 Rural festival and event tourism in Albania 124
Enrico Porfido
12 In focus 2 – Koh Phi Phi Thailand: an icon of backpacker culture,
victim of film tourism and devastated by crisis 140
Faye Taylor

PART III HERITAGE AND CULTURE-BASED TOURISM
13 Personal heritage tourism 144
Heather Kennedy-Eden and Ulrike Gretzel
14 Communist heritage tourism in Poland 158
Robert Pawlusiński, Joanna Kowalczyk-Anioł and Magdalena
Kubal-Czerwińska
15 Railways and niche tourism developments in Brazil 172
Carla Fraga
16 Industrial tourism and ceramics-led tourism in Stoke-on-Trent, UK 186
Paul Williams
17 ‘Escape rooms’ and cultural tourism in Poland 200
Andrzej Stasiak
18 Language tourism 218
Montserrat Iglesias
19 In focus 3 – contemporary arts tourism in West Africa 232
Marina Novelli, Maria Pia Bernardoni and Clive Allanso

PART IV DARK TOURISM
20 Battlefield tourism: the legacy of Sandakan in Malaysian Borneo 236
Balvinder Kaur Kler and Cassie Perpetua Forsythe
21 Cold War Museum in Lithuania 250
Rasa Pranskūnienė and Viltė Kriščiūnaitė
22 Cemetery tourism in Slovenia 262
Lea Kužnik and Tanja Ostrman Renault
23 In focus 4 – fine dining in a prison: The Clink restaurants in the UK 278
Alison McIntosh, Maria Gebbels and Tracy Harkison

PART V SPIRITUAL, RELIGIOUS AND WELLNESS TOURISM
24 Faith, new age spirituality and religious tourism 282
Daniel H. Olsen
25 Babymoon travel in India 300
Senthilkumaran Piramanayagam and Partho Pratim Seal
26 Pilgrimage tourism and the Shugendō programs in Japan 316
Ricardo Nicolas Progano
27 In focus 5 – religious tourism in the urban setting of Varanasi in India 328
K Thirumaran, Simona Azzali, Zilmiyah Kamble, Yash Prabhugaonkar and
Manisha Agarwal

PART VI SOCIAL AND INCLUSIVE TOURISM
28 Social tourism in Brazil 332
Ernest Cañada
29 Developmentourism and school tours in Zimbabwe 345
Kathleen Smithers and Joanne Ailwood
30 Gay tourism and sustainable rainbow tourist destinations 357
Fabio Corbisiero and Salvatore Monaco
31 The ‘albergo diffuso’ and tourism revitalization in Southern Italy 371
Dionisia Russo Krauss
32 In focus 6 – the ‘Wasteland – Graced Land’ story of Melkhoutfontein,
South Africa 383
Anthea Rossouw

PART VII LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN NICHE TOURISM
33 South Korean ‘one-month stay’ travellers 388
Jaeyeon Choe
34 Unseen Tours’ virtual ‘Not-in-a-Pub’ quizzes: social inclusion and
empowerment in times of COVID-19 401
Claudia Dolezal, Jayni Gudka and Dominic Lapointe
35 In focus 7 – hot air ballooning in the Czech Republic 422
Markéta Novotná and Josef Kunc
36 In focus 8 – flights to nowhere 425
Martine Bakker

Index 427