Incoming tourism, outgoing culture: Tourism, development and cultural heritage in the Libyan Sahara

Journal of North African Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 441-457

  Di Lernia, Savino ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Italian Libyan Archaeological Mission in the Acacus and Messak (Libyan Sahara)   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CULTURAL HERITAGE; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

AFRICA; LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA; NORTH AFRICA; SAHARA;

EID: 31044438097     PISSN: 13629387     EISSN: 17439345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13629380500350285     Document Type: Article

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2. Atia Mohamed Radwan (Personal communication).
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4. Ibid., p. 75. (Editorial note. Algeria's figures are almost certainly grossly inflated, and are believed to include many other categories of 'visitor' other than tourists).
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7. -21 April 2002.
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10. Ibid.
11. Mohammed Denda (Personal communication).
12. See J. Keenan, 'The lesser gods of the Sahara', Public Archaeology 2 (2002), pp. 131-150.
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23. Barrè (note 3).
24. For example: S. di Lernia and A. Palombini, 'Desertification, sustainability, and archaeology: Indications from the past for an African future', Origini XXIV (2002), pp. 303-334.
25. Hodder (note 5).