‘Travelling down memory lane’: personal memory as a generator of tourism

Tourism Geographies

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 36-53

  Marschall, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

experience; heritage; identity; memory; memory sites; memory trip; personal memory tourism; return travel; revisiting; tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919848511     PISSN: 14616688     EISSN: 14701340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2014.925963     Document Type: Article

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