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Revisiting the Churchyard

European Journal of Life Writing, 2020
The churchyard has always been a site of pilgrimage. The remains of the dead, sanctified as holy relics, conferred a hallowed status on their location in the earth; this, in turn, became a destination for travellers. By the eighteenth century, ‘pilgrims’
James Metcalf
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Tourism, conflict and contested heritage in former Yugoslavia [PDF]

, 2016
Although, historically, there have always been travellers crossing the Balkan Peninsula, Todorova (1994 Todorova, M. (1994). The Balkans: From discovery to invention. Slavic Review, 53, 453–482.
Naef, Patrick, Ploner, Josef
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Evaluation and development opportunities of the disused Lutheran cemeteries within the Maskulińskie and Pisz Forest Divisions for thanatourism

Tourism, 2015
This paper presents the results of a study of 67 disused Lutheran cemeteries situated in the Pisz and Maskulińskie Forest Divisions (the southern part of Warmińsko-Mazurskie Province).
Sławomir Sobotka, Anna Długozima
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Consuming post-disaster destinations: The case of Sichuan, China [PDF]

, 2014
Addressing the call for a better understanding of tourist behavior in relation to post-disaster destinations, this study explores the motivations and intentions of potential domestic tourists (from non-hit areas) to visit Sichuan, China in the aftermath ...
Aguiló, Amujo, Ashworth, Avital Biran, Biran, Biran, Birkmann, Blom, Bloor, Braun, Brislin, Bryman, Carlsen, Carlsen, Churchill, Cioccio, Coats, Cresswell, Duhachek, Dunford, Dunkely, Faulkner, Field, Fishbein, Floyd, Gang Li, Gotham, Hair, Henderson, Huan, Huang, Hwang, Hyde, Hystad, Jang, Kang, Kelman, Kim, Klenosky, Kline, Ladkin, Lam, Lennon, Lin, Line, McKercher, McKercher, Medway, Miller, Park, Pearce, Pelling, Pelling, Philips, Phillimore, Prideaux, Ritchie, Rittichainuwat, Rittichainuwat, Rittichainuwat, Rittichainuwat, Robbie, Rojek, Seaton, Seaton, Seaton, Sharpley, Sparks, Stone, Stone, Stone, Stone, Strange, Thi Le, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, Uriely, Victoria Eichhorn, Wei Liu, West, Yang   +79 more
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The meaning of genocide and terror in cognitive tourism

Tourism, 2014
The article considers the influence of acts of terror and war crimes on both the development of tourism, or a lack of it. Terrorist attacks, the victims of which are tourists as well as local citizens, constrain or completely prevent tourism development.
Sławoj Tanaś
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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, Oheneba A. Akyeampong   +1 more
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Consuming dark tourism: A Thanatological Perspective [PDF]

, 2008
Despite increasing academic attention paid to dark tourism, understanding of the concept remains limited, particularly from a consumption perspective. That is, the literature focuses primarily on the supply of dark tourism; less attention, however, has ...
Sharpley, Richard, Stone, Philip
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“Non tutti hanno una cripta” Mummie, turismo e patrimonializzazione in Sicilia “Not everyone has a crypt” Mummies, tourism, and heritage-making in Sicily

EtnoAntropologia, 2023
The Capuchins’ Catacombs of Palermo are not the main tourist attraction of the city, however they receive a high number of visitors representing the niche travel market named “dark tourism”.
Rebecca Sabatini
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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, Kennell, James, Powell, Raymond   +2 more
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Memorials to the victims of Nazism: the impact on tourists in Berlin [PDF]

, 2015
This qualitative study explores tourist responses to memorials to the victims of Nazism in Berlin and the impact they have on the tourist experience. The findings are located in the field of study known as dark tourism, of which visiting memorials is a ...
Adorno T., Arendt H., Ashworth G., de Groot J., Earl H., Erlandson D. A., Gerhardt U., Kershaw I., Kogon E., Laqueur W., Lennon J., Levi P., Lieberman B., Light D., Lorraine Brown, Moffat R., Murphy F., Nagle J., Pendas D., Rees L., Rose G., Skinner J., Stone D., Stone P., Switzer C., Tiedemann R., Till K. E., Von Schirach F., Waterton E.   +28 more
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