Anthropology of tourism: Forging new ground for ecotourism and other alternatives

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 30, Issue , 2001, Pages 261-283

  Stronza, Amanda ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative tourism; Conservation; Development; Impacts of tourism; Origins of tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039437984     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.30.1.261     Document Type: Article

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