Beyond Eurocentrism in tourism: A paradigm shift to mobilities

Tourism Recreation Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 157-168

  Cohen, Erik ^a   Cohen, Scott A ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emerging regions; Eurocentrism; Mobilities; Paradigm shift

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997787403     PISSN: 02508281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508281.2015.1039331     Document Type: Article

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