Historical limits: Narrowing possibilities in 'Ontario's most historic town'

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 209-227

  Stern, Pamela ^a   Hall, Peter V ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heritage tourism; Northern Ontario; Place branding; Roll out neoliberalism

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; HERITAGE TOURISM; INVESTMENT; MINING; NEOLIBERALISM; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM MARKET; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST DESTINATION;

CANADA; COBALT; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 77952651397     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2009.00296.x     Document Type: Article

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