Diaspora tourists and the scottish homecoming 2009

Journal of Heritage Tourism

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 259-274

  Sim, Duncan ^a   Leith, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural heritage; Diaspora; Identity; National identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936935106     PISSN: 1743873X     EISSN: 17476631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2012.758124     Document Type: Article

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