Considering the Limits of Rural Place Making Opportunities: Rural Dystopias and Dark Tourism

Landscape Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 262-272

  Rofe, Matthew Winsor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

dark tourism; rural dystopia; Rural idyll; Snowtown

Indexed keywords

RURAL AREA; RURAL ECONOMY; TOURISM DEVELOPMENT; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST DESTINATION;

AUSTRALIA; SNOWTOWN; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84878597367     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: 14699710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2012.694414     Document Type: Article

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