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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 Macbeth
Our 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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Journal

Tourism geographies: an international journal of tourism space, place and environment

Volume

11

Issue

3

Pagination

369 - 389

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Location

Abingdon, England

ISSN

1461-6688

eISSN

1470-1340

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2009, Taylor & Francis

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