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Emotional Overload! A Dialogic Autoethnography of Scholar-Participant-Consumer Reactions to the Marketing of Thanatourism [PDF]
The Qualitative Report, 2021 The terms “thanatourism” and “dark tourism” relate to visiting places of human tragedy, which are increasingly developed as tourist destinations. There is a need to trouble thanatouristic assumptions through sharing and discussing lived experiences. These challenge the simplistic mechanistic marketing and conventional research practices of thanatourism.
Lloyd-Parkes, Elizabeth +3 more
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Dark Tourism – the Dark Side of Berlin [PDF]
Studia Periegetica, 2019 In search of new destinations and experiences, tourists are now visiting places that are monuments of tragedy, suffering, death and destruction. These places are often connected to mass murders or catastrophes.
Magdalena Olejniczak
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Dark tourism in the Philippine context: Indicators, motivations, and spectrum
Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023 Dark tourism or thanatourism is an emerging area of study in the Philippines. Accordingly, it involves visiting places associated with death and suffering.
Ma. Gina M. Fabros +2 more
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Thanatourism: la frontiera oscura del viaggiare. Il caso del “Cimitero delle fontanelle”
Fuori Luogo, 2019 La centralità che l’esperienza turistica ha assunto nella società contemporanea è una conquista della modernità, resa possibile dalla moltiplicazione dei mezzi di trasporto, degli strumenti di comunicazione e dell’insieme di servizi a disposizione dei ...
Salvatore Monaco, Francesco Calicchia
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Thanatourism,Caminata Nocturna, and the Complex Geopolitics of Mexico's Parque EcoAlberto
Southern Communication Journal, 2015 This article provides readers with a critical analysis of Mexico's Parque EcoAlberto. Utilizing some of the theoretical work of interdisciplinary scholars who are interested in the study of “thanatourism,” the authors illustrate how this park, with its Caminata Nocturna (night hike), is much more than simply a “dark” tourist attraction that deters ...
Hasian, Marouf A., Jr. +2 more
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„Dark Tourism“– Evaluation of Visitors Experience after Visiting Thanatological Tourist Attractions [PDF]
Turizam, 2011 Although thanatourism is a unique kind of tourism, whose history goes back to ancient times and the middle ages, literature on this touristic demand is still scarce, despite the fact that classification and categorization of thanatological tourist sites ...
Marijana Bittner
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Dark tourism and thanatourism: Distinct tourism typologies or simple analytical tools?
Tourism: An International Interdisciplinary Journal, 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. Focusing on this kind of places, as well as on other places with different degrees of authenticity, macabre, emotions and tourism ...
Viorel Mionel, Mionel, Viorel
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Dark tourism: a bibliometric review of the past, present and future trends
Tourism and Hospitality Management, 2023 Purpose – The purpose of this study is to critically review the knowledge structure of dark tourism. It is an emerging tourism attraction, but one that has received less attention in the literature.
Muhammad Ashraf Fauzi
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Opportunities for the development of dark tourism in Ukraine
Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія Геологія. Географія. Екологія, 2022 Formulation of the problem. Every year there are new types of tourism and, accordingly, new directions of tourist travel. Among such areas is dark tourism, which, although it exists in the modern sense of the term for no more than 25 years, but already ...
Mariya Lushchyk, Olha Mamchur
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Dark tourism: motivations and visit intentions of tourists [PDF]
International Hospitality Review, 2022 Purpose – The overall purpose of this study is to utilize the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in combination with four dark tourism constructs (dark experience, engaging entertainment, unique learning experience, and casual interest) to gain a better ...
Heather Lewis +2 more
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