Desiring the dark: ‘a taste for the unusual’ in North Korean tourism?

Current Issues in Tourism

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-6

  Buda, Dorina Maria ^a   Shim, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

desire; North Korea; psychoanalysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919860316     PISSN: 13683500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2014.948813     Document Type: Letter

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