Mountain Tourism, Altitude and Host-Guest Relationships - Hardcover

by Michal Apollo (Author)

This insightful volume critically explores whether higher altitude of habitation affects host-guest exchanges in mountaineering tourism, in an effort to better understand and manage vulnerable destinations in a sustainable manner.

Author Biography

Michal Apollo is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland, and Fellow of Yale University's Global Justice Program, USA. He specialises in tourism management, consumer behaviour, and environmental and socio-economic issues. In his main research field, he focuses on human presence and well-being in high mountain regions. Michal is also an enthusiastic mountaineer, ultra-runner, diver, sailor, photographer, science populariser and NGO activist.