Exploring Attitudes Towards Tourism Australia's 'Where the Bloody Hell Are You?' Campaign

Current Issues in Tourism

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 301-314

  Winter, Caroline ^a   Gallon, Sharon ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Bloody hell; National identity; Patriotism

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTURAL IDENTITY; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; INTERNATIONAL TOURISM; MEDIA ROLE; NATIONAL IDENTITY; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 67549127443     PISSN: 13683500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/cit364.0     Document Type: Article

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