Modernity on the beach: A postcolonial reading from southern shores

Tourist Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 203-222

  Hazbun, Waleed ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

beach tourism; domestic tourism; Mediterranean; modernity; modernization; Morocco; non Western tourism; postcolonialism; Spain; tourism theory; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649654112     PISSN: 14687976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468797610382702     Document Type: Article

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