Shining light on the darkness. Placing tourists within North Korean tourism. Comment on: Desiring the dark: ‘A taste for the unusual’ in North Korean tourism?

Current Issues in Tourism

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 356-362

  Connell, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

North Korea; politics; representation; tourists

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928674157     PISSN: 13683500     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2015.1032896     Document Type: Letter

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