A "University of Travel": Backpacker learning

Tourism Management

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1285-1298

  Pearce, Philip L ^a   Foster, Faith ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Backpackers; Generic skills; Knowledge acquisition; Northern Australia; Self report; University learning

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 34250212545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02615177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2006.11.009     Document Type: Article

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