Motivations for war-related tourism: A case of DMZ visitors in Korea;Motivations des voyageurs en zones de conflit: Le cas des visiteurs de la zone démilitarisée de Corée

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 371-394

  Bigley, James D ^a,b   Lee, Choong Ki ^c   Chon, Jinhyung ^c   Yoon, Yooshik ^c  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Dark tourism; Japanese tourists; Korean dmz; Motivation; Push pull theory; War tourism

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MARKETING; TOURISM ECONOMICS; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION;

KOREA;

EID: 77954634828     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2010.494687     Document Type: Article

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