Pilgrimage and the environment: Challenges in a pilgrimage centre

Current Issues in Tourism

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 343-365

  Shinde, Kiran ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environment; India; Pilgrimage; Tirupati

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST DESTINATION;

ANDHRA PRADESH; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TIRUPATI;

TIRUMALA;

EID: 34548305033     PISSN: 13683500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/cit259.0     Document Type: Article

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