Looking for the real me: Locating the self in heritage tourism

Journal of Heritage Tourism

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 100-120

  Breathnach, Teresa ^a  

^a Unit 32 Beechwood Close   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Authenticity; Consumption; Heritage; Identity; Modernity

Indexed keywords

EID: 67549124609     PISSN: 1743873X     EISSN: 17476631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/jht009.0     Document Type: Article

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