Tourism and archaeological heritage management at Petra [electronic resource] : driver to development or destruction? / Douglas C. Comer.

Once visited only by the cognoscenti of the ancient world, over the last decade Petra has drawn almost a million visitors in some years. Petra burst into popular consciousness with the release of enormously popular motion picture Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1989. Moviegoers all over the world were in...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	Comer, Douglas C.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Springer, ©2012.
Series:	SpringerBriefs in archaeology.
Subjects:	Petra (Extinct city) Petra Great Temple Site (Petra, Jordan) Heritage tourism. Historic sites.