About romance and reality: Popular European imagery in postcolonial tourism in southern Africa

Tourism and Postcolonialism: Contested Discourses, Identities and Representations

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 76-94

  Wels, Harry ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 34548706119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203392270     Document Type: Chapter

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