Attitudes and willingness to donate towards heritage restoration: An exploratory study about Bulgarian socialist monuments

Journal of Heritage Tourism

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 68-74

  Poria, Yaniv ^a,b   Ivanov, Stanislav ^c   Webster, Craig ^d  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VARNA UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT   (Bulgaria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NICOSIA   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Bulgaria; Communist heritage; Socialist heritage; Willingness to donate; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979027836     PISSN: 1743873X     EISSN: 17476631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2013.778266     Document Type: Article

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