Cultural Tourism in African Communities: A Comparison Between Cultural Manyattas in Kenya and the Cultural Tourism Project in Tanzania

Cultural Tourism in a Changing World: Politics, Participation and (Re)presentation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 104-123

  Duim, Rene Van Der ^a   Peters, Karin ^a   Akama, John ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

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