Understanding Experiential Authenticity through the Best Tourism Places

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 570-575

  Lew, Alan A ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

conference report; Existential authenticity; geography research; pecha kucha; tourism experience; tourism research; touristic communitas

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; TOURISM; TOURIST ATTRACTION;

EID: 84859262610     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2011.588245     Document Type: Review

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