Creating a city of the tourist imagination: The case of Cape Town, 'The fairest cape of them all'

Urban Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1763-1785

  Bickford Smith, Vivian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST DESTINATION; TOWN PLANNING; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN RENEWAL; URBAN SOCIETY;

AFRICA; CAPE TOWN; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 69249101623     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098009106013     Document Type: Article

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