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Dark Cities: A dark tourism index for Europe’s tourism cities, based on the analysis of DMO websites [PDF]
, 2018 Purpose: Dark tourism is a topic of increasing interest, but it is poorly understood when considering its significance for mainstream and commercial tourism.
Barton, Christopher +2 more
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Dark cities? Developing a methodology for researching dark tourism in European cities [PDF]
, 2016 Despite the recent growth of research into dark tourism (Dale & Robinson, 2011; Lennon & Foley, 2000; Stone, 2013; Tarlow, 2005) and the growth of the dark tourism market (Biran & Hyde, 2013; Stone 2005; Stone & Sharpley, 2008), there has been little ...
Kennell, James, Powell, Raymond
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TOURISTS’ MOTIVATIONS FOR VISITING DARK TOURISM SITES. CASE OF ROMANIA [PDF]
Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2021 Nowadays, tourism plays an essential role in economic growth and development in many countries. Tourists have different travelling motivations and behavioural manifestations, helping tour operators decide suitable for them.
Andreia Schneider +3 more
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Dark Tourism: Concepts, Typologies and Sites [PDF]
, 2015 Dark Tourism, understood as the type of tourism that involves a visit to real or recreated places associated with death, suffering, misfortune, or the seemingly macabre, is not a new concept, even from a touristic point of view.
Fonseca, Ana Paula +2 more
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, 2017 Interest in dark tourism is on the rise. Defined as visitation of sites associated with death, disaster, and atrocity, this phenomenon is of interest to the wider public and academics alike, and has become a lucrative commercial practice. Media, movies, and accounts of breaking-news events help stimulate dark tourism.
Annaclaudia Martini +2 more
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THE MAGIC OF DARK TOURISM [PDF]
Management & Marketing, 2015 The dark tourism is a form of tourism that is not unanimously accepted by the whole society, but in spite of this fact, the practitioners of dark tourism is a viable segment.
Erika KULCSÁR, Rozalina Zsófia SIMON
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Tourists' Perceptions of Heritage Tourism Development in Danish-osu, Ghana [PDF]
, 2010 His paper examines the tourist perceptions at Danish, Osu-Ghana within the dark tourism or slavery heritage contexts. Using Cohen's (1979) typology of tourist experience, we differentiate between tourist knowledge of a heritage site relative to socio ...
Aaron K. B. Yankholmes +1 more
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Dark London: Dimensions and characteristics of dark tourism supply in the UK capital [PDF]
, 2016 This paper will investigate the characteristics of the supply of dark tourism in London, UK through an examination of the identified main dark sites in London, UK. Our methodology is based on web analysis of the presence of marketed and non-marketed dark
Baudrillard J. +9 more
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Tourist experiences of genocide sites: The case of Rwanda [PDF]
Turističko Poslovanje, 2014 Dark tourism is not a new phenomenon. As long as people have been able to travel they have visited places associated with death, disaster and suffering.
Sharpley Richard, Gahigana Innocent
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Mapping the dark: a bibliometric examination of research in Dark Tourism
Cogent Social SciencesThis paper aimed to identify research activity on Dark Tourism based on bibliometric analysis using the WoS database with the support of the VOSviewer.The analysis revealed 10 areas where the topic of Dark Tourism was found and the top five countries ...
Alžbeta Kiráľová, Radka Šperková
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