Singular encounters: Mediating the tourist destination in British television holiday programmes

Tourist Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-58

  Dunn, David ^a  

^a QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

celebrity; consumption of place; docusoap; first person narratives; lifestyle; performance; personalization; scopic; ordinary people

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845258259     PISSN: 14687976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468797606071476     Document Type: Article

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