Chapter 15 Egypt’s Tourism Industry and the Arab Spring

DOI: 10.23912/9781910158814-3432	ISBN: 9781910158814
Published: March 2017	Component type: chapter
Published in: Tourism & Political Change 2nd edition	Parent DOI: 10.23912/9781910158814-3160

10.23912/9781910158814-3432

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• Konstantinos Tomazos, University of Strathclyde (Author) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8961-9242

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• Richard Butler, University of Strathclyde (Editor)
• Wantanee Suntikul, Institute For Tourism Studies (Editor) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5654-6024

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Tomazos, 2017

Tomazos, K. (2017) "Chapter 15 Egypt’s Tourism Industry and the Arab Spring" In: Butler, R. & Suntikul, W. (ed) . Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/9781910158814-3432

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