From Hajj to Hedonism? Paradoxes of Developing Tourism in Saudi Arabia

Tourism in the Middle East: Continuity, Change and Transformation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 215-236

  Burns, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

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