Tourism ‘things’: The travelling performance of the backpack

Tourist Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 223-239

  Walsh, Neil ^a   Tucker, Hazel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

backpacks; material objects; performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649661076     PISSN: 14687976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468797610382706     Document Type: Article

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