Personal travel safety: A new generational perspective

Tourism and Generation Y

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 109-118

  Wilks, Jeff ^a   Pendergast, Donna ^b  

^a Tourism Safety   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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