Mediating Meaning: Perspectives on Brokering Quality Tourist Experiences

Quality Tourism Experiences

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 57-78

  Weiler, Betty ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780080455778-6     Document Type: Chapter

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