Creative destruction in China's historic towns: Daxu and Yangshuo, Guangxi

Journal of Destination Marketing and Management

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 56-66

  Qun, Qin ^a   Mitchell, Clare J A ^b   Wall, Geoff ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heritage; Place identities; Post modernist; Preservation; Re Imaging; Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873451946     PISSN: 2212571X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2012.07.001     Document Type: Article

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