Selling New Orleans to New Orleans: Tourism authenticity and the construction of community identity

Tourist Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 317-339

  Gotham, Kevin Fox ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

authenticity; community; culture; identity; New Orleans; tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 53249101633     PISSN: 14687976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468797608092515     Document Type: Article

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