Dark tourism and significant other death. Towards a Model of Mortality Mediation

Annals of Tourism Research

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1565-1587

  Stone, Philip R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dark tourism; Death; Mediation; Mortality; Thanatology

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; MODELING; MORTALITY; TOURISM;

EID: 84861945725     PISSN: 01607383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2012.04.007     Document Type: Article

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