World Heritage: Exploring the Tension Between the National and the ‘Universal’

Journal of Heritage Tourism

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 145-155

  Rakic, Tijana ^a   Chambers, Donna ^a  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acropolis; Ownership; Semiotics; Tourism; World Heritage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906264797     PISSN: 1743873X     EISSN: 17476631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/jht056.0     Document Type: Article

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