The contribution of biographical research in understanding older women's leisure

The Critical Turn in Tourism Studies: Innovative Research Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 331-347

  Sedgley, Diane ^a  

^a CARDIFF METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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