Authenticity versus development: Tourism to the hill tribes of Thailand

Controversies in Tourism

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 54-72

  Novelli, Marina ^a   Tisch Rottensteiner, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Beluga School for Life   (Thailand)

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