Fair Trade Tourism South Africa: A pragmatic poverty reduction mechanism?

Tourism Planning and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 237-251

  Boluk, Karla ^a  

^a DALARNA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 80053010448     PISSN: 21568316     EISSN: 21568324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21568316.2011.591152     Document Type: Article

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