This is the only tour that sells: Tourism, disaster, and national identity in new Orleans

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 99-114

  Pezzullo, Phaedra C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster; Environmental justice; Katrina; Nationalism; New Orleans; Social and cultural change

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950752884     PISSN: 14766825     EISSN: 17477654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14766820903026348     Document Type: Article

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