Existential Authenticity: Place Matters

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 680-686

  Rickly Boyd, Jillian M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Existential authenticity; experience; geography; landscape; performance; place

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885960027     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2012.762691     Document Type: Note

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