Fear of a Lonely Planet: Author anxieties and the mainstreaming of a guidebook

Current Issues in Tourism

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 705-723

  Iaquinto, Benjamin Lucca ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Editor; Guidebook; Information; Lonely Planet; Writer

Indexed keywords

INFORMATICS; THEORETICAL STUDY; TOURIST DESTINATION;

EID: 80053473974     PISSN: 13683500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2011.555527     Document Type: Article

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