Tourism Performance as Metaphor: Enacting Backpacker Travel in the Fiji Islands

Discourse, Communication and Tourism

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 173-198

  Doorne, Stephen ^a   Ateljevic, Irena ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

^b AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

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DOI: 10.21832/9781845410216-011     Document Type: Chapter

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