'We did the Slum!' - Urban Poverty Tourism in Historical Perspective

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 213-234

  Steinbrink, Malte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

England; ethnic slumming; global slumming; history; moral slumming; poverty tourism; slum tourism; South Africa; urban tourism; USA

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; HERITAGE TOURISM; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; POVERTY; TOURISM; TOURIST DESTINATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; URBAN AREA;

ENGLAND; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859763586     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2012.633216     Document Type: Article

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