The Orient responds: Tourism, Orientalism and the national museums of Singapore

Tourism

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 285-299

  Ooi, Can Seng ^a  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Critical tourism studies; Heritage; Nation building; Orientalization; Social engineering

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HERITAGE; MUSEUM; ORIENTALISM;

ASIA; EURASIA; SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA]; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 33644646357     PISSN: 13327461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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