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Dark sky tourism

Dark sky tourism
Dark sky tourism
Dark sky tourism (DST) ... sometimes referred to as 'terrestrial star tourism' or 'celestial ecotourism' ... consists of visitors travelling to remote, unlit areas on land or water, to observe celestial objects. Depending on the object(s) observed (e.g., stars, planets, moons, nebulae, star clusters or galaxies), stargazing activities occur either aided (with binoculars or telescopes) or unaided (with the naked eye). Dark sky experiences can also be accompanied by other activities like astrophotography or storytelling....
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Edward Elgar Publishing
Dalgleish, Hannah
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Bjelajac, Dajana
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Buhalis, Dimitrios
Dalgleish, Hannah
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Bjelajac, Dajana
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Buhalis, Dimitrios

Dalgleish, Hannah and Bjelajac, Dajana (2022) Dark sky tourism. In, Buhalis, Dimitrios (ed.) Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 761-764. (doi:10.4337/9781800377486.dark.sky.tourism).

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Dark sky tourism (DST) ... sometimes referred to as 'terrestrial star tourism' or 'celestial ecotourism' ... consists of visitors travelling to remote, unlit areas on land or water, to observe celestial objects. Depending on the object(s) observed (e.g., stars, planets, moons, nebulae, star clusters or galaxies), stargazing activities occur either aided (with binoculars or telescopes) or unaided (with the naked eye). Dark sky experiences can also be accompanied by other activities like astrophotography or storytelling....

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e-pub ahead of print date: 25 August 2022

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Local EPrints ID: 478491
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/478491
PURE UUID: 856e0a91-0db2-4a02-8bb1-c74dd8c747d8
ORCID for Hannah Dalgleish: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-8970-3065

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Date deposited: 04 Jul 2023 17:37
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 04:20

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Author: Hannah Dalgleish ORCID iD
Author: Dajana Bjelajac
Editor: Dimitrios Buhalis

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