Tourism and Nation Building at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1307-1321

  Gillen, Jamie ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asian Century; nationalism; tourism; Vietnam; Vietnam War

Indexed keywords

MUSEUM; NATIONALISM; PARTY POLITICS; STATE BUILDING; TOURISM; TOURIST DESTINATION;

HO CHI MINH CITY; VIET NAM;

EID: 84908222128     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.944459     Document Type: Article

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