Trumping the ethnic card: How tourism entrepreneurs on Rodrigues tackled the 2008 financial crisis

Island Studies Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 119-134

  Wergin, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Global financial crisis; Islands; Mauritius; Rodrigues; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871457811     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17152593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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