Victims, hooligans and cash-cows: media representations of the international backpacker in Australia

Tourism Management

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1057-1067

  Peel, Victoria ^a   Steen, Adam ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Backpacking; Content analysis; Government policy; Media; Tourism impacts; Tourist enclaves

Indexed keywords

POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST DESTINATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33947597081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2006.08.012     Document Type: Article

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