The Beach, the gaze and film tourism

Tourist Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 141-164

  Law, Lisa ^a   Bunnell, Tim ^b   Ong, Chin ee ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE FOR TOURISM STUDIES   (Macao)

Author keywords

cinematic geography; film tourism; Krabi Province; Maya Bay; Thailand; tourist gaze; tropicality

Indexed keywords

EID: 35948933495     PISSN: 14687976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468797607083499     Document Type: Article

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