Research note: The relationship between children's geographical knowledge and travel experience: An exploratory study

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 389-397

  Poria, Yaniv ^a   Atzaba Poria, Naama ^a   Barrett, Martyn ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Geographical knowledge; Travel experience

Indexed keywords

CHILD; GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 27744432256     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616680500291121     Document Type: Article

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