Does tourism illuminate the darkness of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Journal of Destination Marketing and Management

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 333-340

  Yoshida, Kaori ^a   Bui, Huong T ^a   Lee, Timothy J ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN ASIA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atomic bomb; Dark tourism; Education; Hiroshima; Japan; Nagasaki

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006401224     PISSN: 2212571X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2016.06.003     Document Type: Article

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