Post-war tourism and the imaginative geographies of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia

European Journal of Tourism Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-24

  Wise, Nicholas A ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bosnia and herzegovina; Croatia; Discourse; Imaginative geographies; Memory; Post war tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855173836     PISSN: 19947658     EISSN: 13140817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.54055/ejtr.v4i1.59     Document Type: Article

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