Tour guides as critically reflective practitioners: A proposed training model

Tourism Recreation Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-33

  Mason, Peter ^a   Christie, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Reflective practitioners; Sustainability; Tour guiding; Transformative tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979763195     PISSN: 02508281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2003.11081383     Document Type: Article

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