"Drive tourism"--defined by editors Prideaux (James Cook U., Australia) and Carson (Charles Darwin U., Australia) as "travel by any form of mechanically powered, passenger-carrying road
transport, with the exclusion of coaches [buses] and bicycles"--is the predominant form of tourism in the United States and many other developed countries and yet there has been little
sustained focus on this form of tourism within the field of tourism research. The editors present the 26 papers collected here as a corrective to this inattention and a means to move drive
tourism to a more central place in the research agenda. The bulk of the collection addresses the contemporary structure of drive tourism either from a geographic perspective based on the drive
market in a particular country (e.g. Australia, Japan, Brazil, Austria, South Africa, and China) or as a market sector based on a specific form of drive tourism such as day tripping or
motorcycling. Overarching issues are also addressed, including road safety, the development of touring routes, and managing park roads and scenic driving. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc.,
Portland, OR (booknews.com)
