Township tourism-blessing or blight? The case of soweto in South Africa

Cultural Tourism: Global and Local Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 39-68

  Ramchander, Pranill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

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