Hotels as Ready-to-Hand Recreation: TripAdvisors Posting Potentiality-for-Being in Play

Tourist Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 70-86

  Wilson, Tony ^a  

^a SUNWAY UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

accommodation; authors; Heidegger s phenomenology; participatory media; readers; TripAdvisor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860601911     PISSN: 14687976     EISSN: 17413206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468797612444198     Document Type: Article

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