Symbols, practices and myth-making: Cultural perspectives on the Wexford Festival Opera

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 329-349

  Quinn, Bernadette ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Contested spaces; Cultural meanings; Festivals; Tourism

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; FESTIVAL; ICONOGRAPHY; TOURIST ATTRACTION;

IRELAND;

EID: 0043157436     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616680309710     Document Type: Article

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