An exploratory multimodal discourse analysis of dark tourism websites: Communicating issues around contested sites

Journal of Destination Marketing and Management

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 341-350

  Krisjanous, Jayne ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Contested places; Dark tourism websites; Multimodal discourse analysis; Tourist consumer behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006499448     PISSN: 2212571X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jdmm.2016.07.005     Document Type: Article

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