Dialectics of authentication: Performing ‘exotic otherness’ in a backpacker enclave of Dali, China

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-17

  Ateljevic, Irena ^a   Doorne, Stephen ^b  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

^b University of South Pacific   (Fiji)

Author keywords

Authenticity and PR China; Backpacker; Culture; Entrepreneurship; Ethnicity; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008844531     PISSN: 14766825     EISSN: 17477654     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14766820508669093     Document Type: Article

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