Personal emotional journeys associated with adventure activities on packaged mountaineering holidays

Tourism Management Perspectives

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 145-154

  Pomfret, Gill ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adventure tourism; Emotional journey; Flow; Packaged adventure; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868277235     PISSN: 22119736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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