Dreaming of drams: Authenticity in Scottish whisky tourism as an expression of unresolved Habermasian rationalities

Leisure Studies

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-116

  Spracklen, Karl ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authenticity; Habermas; Scottishness; Whisky tourism

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; RATIONALIZATION; TOURISM;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 78751541025     PISSN: 02614367     EISSN: 14664496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02614367.2010.502240     Document Type: Article

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