Touring imprisonment: A descriptive statistical analysis of prison museums

Tourism Management Perspectives

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 113-118

  Ross, Jeffrey Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark tourism; Jail museums; Prison museums

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868284761     PISSN: 22119736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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