Township tourism in Africa: Emerging tour operators in Gauteng, South Africa

Urban Tourism in the Developing World: The South African Experience

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 205-220

  Nemasetoni, Irene ^a   Rogerson, Christian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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