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Deep in the desert: merging the desert and the spiritual through 4WD tourism
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posted on 2009-08-01, 00:00 authored by Yamini NarayananYamini Narayanan, J MacbethOur paper positions four-wheel drive (4WD) travel into the Australian desert by veteran or dedicated travellers as a spiritual experience in three ways: by considering the desert itself as a sacred space; the experience of such a journey as a form of ‘nature religion’; and by viewing the actual journey itself as pilgrimage. Our argument is informed by interviews with expert 4WDers to the desert. Our study might be useful in designing sustainable strategies for 4WD desert tourism, as well as for scholars from a variety of disciplines such as sustainability and environment studies, religious studies and tourism studies, to name a few.
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Tourism geographies: an international journal of tourism space, place and environmentVolume
11Issue
3Pagination
369 - 389Publisher
Taylor & FrancisLocation
Abingdon, EnglandPublisher DOI
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1461-6688eISSN
1470-1340Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2009, Taylor & FrancisUsage metrics
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