Negotiated space: Tourists, pilgrims, and the Bahá'í terraced gardens in Haifa

Geoforum

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 765-778

  Gatrell, Jay D ^a   Collins Kreiner, Noga ^b  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bah ' ; Lefebvre; Pilgrimage; Tourism

Indexed keywords

GARDEN; GLOBALIZATION; HERITAGE TOURISM; RECREATIONAL POLICY; SOCIAL IMPACT; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; HAIFA [ISRAEL]; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33745956228     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.01.002     Document Type: Article

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