Nostalgia for the Family Holiday Vacation
by Alan A. Lew, Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation, Northern Arizona University, USA
A Literature Review of:
Are We There Yet? The Golden Age of American Family Vacations by Susan Sessions Rugh (University of Kansas Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7006-1588-9)
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Theme Park by Scott A. Lukas (Reaktion Books, 2008, ISBN 978-1-86189-394-9)
One of the stories that I tell people about how and why I became a scholar of geography and tourism has to do with my childhood upbringing. Summer family vacations were an important part of my early experiences, and may have contributed to my adult interest in tourism and travel as both a vocation and an avocation. ...
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Published in: Tourism Geographies, Volume 12, Issue 4 November 2010 , pages 568 - 571
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