Overlooked encounters: Young tourists’ experiences at dark sites

Journal of Heritage Tourism

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 177-185

  Kerr, Mary Margaret ^a   Price, Rebecca H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Child psychology; Children; Dark tourism; Tourism research; Tourist experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962667942     PISSN: 1743873X     EISSN: 17476631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2015.1075543     Document Type: Review

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