Tourism and remembrance: the journey into the self and its past

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 335-348

  Marschall, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

experience; memory; personal memory site; personal memory tourism; return travel; revisiting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919418497     PISSN: 14766825     EISSN: 17477654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14766825.2014.890208     Document Type: Article

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