Somewhat empty meeting grounds: Travelers in South India

Making ‘genuine’ contacts with local people has been defined as one of the ‘pillars’ of the ideology of independent travel. In a groundbreaking time-space budgeting survey among travelers in Kerala, India, a contradictory reality was discovered. Western trav- elers interacted mainly with local servi...

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Main Author: Petri Hottola
Format: Printed Book
Published: Annals of Tourism Research 2014
Subjects:
INDEPENDENT TRAVEL; > SPATIOTEMPORAL; > INTERCULTURAL; > CULTURE CONFUSION; > MUNNAR TOURISM
Online Access:http://10.26.1.76/ks/005642.pdf
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