Hotel Babylon? Exploring hotels as liminal sites of transition and transgression

Tourism Management

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 762-772

  Pritchard, Annette ^a   Morgan, Nigel ^a  

^a CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hotels; Liminality; Sexual adventure; Spatiality; Surveillance; Transgression

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; HERITAGE TOURISM; TOURISM MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33644662636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2005.05.015     Document Type: Article

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