Touring routes-types, successes and failures: An international review

Drive Tourism: Trends and Emerging Markets

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 296-310

  Carson, Dean ^a   Cartan, Greg ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84909063570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203880395     Document Type: Chapter

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