Consuming rural Japan: The marketing of tradition and nostalgia in the Japanese travel industry

Ethnology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 239-254

  Creighton, Millie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advertising; Consumerism; Department stores; Japan; Place consciousness; Topophilia; Tourism

Indexed keywords

NOSTALGIA TOURISM; PERCEPTION; RURAL AREA; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TRAVEL ADVERTISING;

JAPAN;

EID: 0031410485     PISSN: 00141828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3773988     Document Type: Article

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