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The geographies of thanatourism
Geography, 2015 This article explores the geographies of thanatourism, a form of travel where tourists encounter places associated with death, disaster and the macabre.
Tony Johnston
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Beyond temporal reflections in thanatourism research [PDF]
Annals of Tourism Research, 2015 •Thanatourism or dark tourism sites are typically viewed through a temporal lens.•Within this context, these sites are thought to fulfil socialising functions.•A knowledge gap exists concerning thanatourism’s contribution to modern society.•The paper therefore reflects on the ethical dimensions of thanatourism.•Viewing thanatourism sites through a ...
Ria Ann Dunkley
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Progress in dark tourism and thanatourism research: An uneasy relationship with heritage tourism
Tourism Management, 2017 This paper reviews academic research into dark tourism and thanatourism over the 1996–2016 period. The aims of this paper are threefold. First, it reviews the evolution of the concepts of dark tourism and thanatourism, highlighting similarities and differences between them. Second it evaluates progress in 6 key themes and debates.
Duncan Light
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Beauty versus tragedy: thanatourism and the memorialisation of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide [PDF]
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 2013 Almost 20 years after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda remains confronted with the complexity of an enduring reconciliation process; a process both enabled and complicated by the arrival and increase of international tourism to the genocide memorials. Drawing on contemporary thanatourism, genocide, heritage and memorialisation theory and discourse, this paper
Tony Johnston
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“If you like your history horrible”: The obscene supplementarity of thanatourism [PDF]
Annals of Tourism ResearchBy examining witch tourism in Lancashire, England, this paper reveals the ideological role that dark histories fulfil for consumer culture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, we explore thanatourism as a means for ‘post-historical’ subjects to conceive of wilder, pre-liberal worlds before capitalist realism extinguished all alternatives.
Sophie James +2 more
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Dark tourism, the holocaust, and well-being: A systematic review [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Dark tourists experience negative and positive feelings in Holocaust places, suggesting emotional ambivalence. The research question of this study is, “is feeling well-being, as a consequence of dark tourism, a way of banalizing the horror?”. The purpose
José Magano +2 more
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Death as attraction: the role of travel medicine and psychological travel health care in ‘dark tourism’ [PDF]
Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines, 2021 Still an evolving field in travel medicine, psychological travel health has not yet been linked to tourist products that may affect travellers’ mental wellbeing.
Irmgard L. Bauer
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MAPPING TWO DECADES OF RESEARCH ON DARK TOURISM AND THANATOURISM: A BIBLIOMETRIC PERSPECTIVE [PDF]
Geo Journal of Tourism and GeositesDark tourism is an umbrella term for tourism related to death, suffering, cruelty, tragedy and/or crime. Thanatourism, on the other hand, refers to travel motivated by the specific desire to encounter death.
Rocio HERNÁNDEZ-GARRIDO +2 more
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Travel, slavery, memory: thanatourism in the French Atlantic
Postcolonial Studies, 2014 ‘Travel’ is not a word that can be easily evoked to talk about the Middle Passage, the Trail of Tears, the landing of the Chinese immigrants at Ellis Island, the forced relocation of Japanese Ameri...
Charles Forsdick
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Frontiers in Political ScienceDark tourism (or thanatourism) has emerged as one of the most dynamic and controversial segments of the global tourism industry. In Latin America, particularly in Colombia, Bolivia, and Mexico, this phenomenon intersects with the legacy of drug ...
Hugo Guerrero-Sierra +2 more
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