Transnational Mobilties in Snowboarding Culture: Travel, Tourism and Lifestyle Migration

Mobilities

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 317-345

  Thorpe, Holly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

action sport; lifestyle migration; snowboarding; travel; Youth culture

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL RELATIONS; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LIFESTYLE; MOBILITY; SPORT; TOURISM; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG POPULATION;

EID: 84860328437     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.654999     Document Type: Article

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