Battlefields Tourism: The status of heritage tourism in Dundee, South Africa

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series

Volumn 26, Issue 26, 2014, Pages 121-139

  Van Der Merwe, Clinton David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Battlefields Tourism; local development; South Africa; heritage Tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919599334     PISSN: 17324254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/bog-2014-0049     Document Type: Article

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