Experiences of Extreme Frost in Winter Adventure Tourism
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3727/109830423X17037115767573" target="_blank" >10.3727/109830423X17037115767573</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Experiences of Extreme Frost in Winter Adventure Tourism
Original language description
There has been extensive scholarly investigation of adventure tourism (demanding physical activities during travel, a natural environment, and risk, danger, and uncertainty) though less attention given to the experience of snowshoeing, camping, and hard adventure tourism in winter. This qualitative study provides a conceptualization of winter adventure tourism, and visual methodology (drawings by adult participants) based on the principle of “metaphorical truthfulness.” An interpretation is offered of 8 drawings from 19 pairs of pictures made by participants at the beginning and end of a winter expedition to the Altai and Sayan mountains in Siberia. The bonfire phenomenon is the central point in the pictures and may be interpreted not only for its pragmatic use as a source of warmth and light, but as the center of the world, a symbolic and societal value of fire, and a cosmogonic element in the mythopoetic experiences of a hard winter adventure tourists. Pursuit of a deeper understanding of the spirituality of the tourist experience without religious faith (contact with a wild natural environment, frost, and hard physical activities) allows us to characterize this mode as an implicit religion, as a transformative experience changing horizons of the lives of tourists.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50901 - Other social sciences
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Tourism, Culture and Communication
ISSN
1098-304X
e-ISSN
1943-4146
Volume of the periodical
25
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
51-65
UT code for WoS article
001443717500004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85216900701