See Australia and die: Shifting discourses about gray nomads

Tourism, Culture and Communication

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 161-168

  Holloway, Donell ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; Gray nomads; Media; RVing; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 35649023164     PISSN: 1098304X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/109830407782212475     Document Type: Article

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