Making wilderness: Tourism and the history of the wilderness idea in Iceland

Polar Geography

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 249-273

  Sæthórsdóttir, Anna Dóra ^a   Hall, C Michael ^b   Saarinen, Jarkko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION; TOURISM; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST DESTINATION; WILDERNESS AREA;

ICELAND;

EID: 84855461940     PISSN: 1088937X     EISSN: 19390513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1088937X.2011.643928     Document Type: Article

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