Experiences of Extreme Frost in Winter Adventure Tourism

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3727/109830423X17037115767573" target="_blank" >10.3727/109830423X17037115767573</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Experiences of Extreme Frost in Winter Adventure Tourism

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Experiences of Extreme Frost in Winter Adventure Tourism

Popis výsledku anglicky

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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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50901 - Other social sciences

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Tourism, Culture and Communication

ISSN

1098-304X

e-ISSN

1943-4146

Svazek periodika

25

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

51-65

Kód UT WoS článku

001443717500004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85216900701