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Dark Sky Eco Tourism Guide

open access: yes, 2023
The dark sky evokes basic human emotions and connects us all to the human story, of how we watch the dark sky, tell and create stories about the stars in the sky and beings in the dark With the deterioration of the quality of darkness due to ...
Bolger, Mark   +6 more
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Post-modernity and the exceptionalism of the present in dark tourism

open access: yes, 2012
The paper is a polemical essay concerning approaches to the historical other; a critique of the exceptionalism of the present displayed in some of the contemporary dark tourism literature.
Booth, Charles, Casbeard, Rebecca
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The Dungeons and the phenomenon 'Dark tourism'

open access: yes, 2017
‘Dark tourism’ is an important aspect of tourism. It can be found around the world at different locations. Furthermore, the phenomenon ‘Dark tourism’ as such has been growing in the last two centuries, and therefore many scholars have different ...
Hull, Brynn Ida Dan
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Astronomical Tourism: An often Overlooked Sustainable Tourism Segment

open access: yes, 2012
Astronomical tourism is a potential attraction for visitors to destination areas where dark skies free from artificial light pollution can be enjoyed.
Collison, Fredrick M., Ph.D.
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Dark tourism and thanatourism: Distinct tourism typologies or simple analytical tools?

open access: yes, 2019
Auschwitz-Birkenau is the main example provided by researchers whenever dark tourism and thanatourism are used as principal analytical concepts. Theoretically, this example is considered one of the darkest tourism sites.
Viorel Mionel, Mionel, Viorel
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Dark Tourism: History perception, motivation & consumption: A qualitative study of history perception and its use when visiting dark tourism products

open access: yes, 2009
The aim of this paper is to gain an understanding of how historical views and consciousness influence the motivation for visiting dark tourism sites and the way the sites are absorbed.
Rasmussen, Anette Omand
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Curiosity in calamity: How personal schadenfreude shapes disaster-tourism intentions. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Joseph J   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sebald's Ghosts:Travelling Among the Dead in The Rings of Saturn

open access: yes, 2012
A revised version of the earlier article of the same name, on the relations between Sebald's work and dark travel and ...
Cooke, Simon
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