At the edge: Heritage and tourism development in Vietnam’s Con Dao archipelago
Journal of Marine and Island Cultures, 2014 This article outlines the development of Vietnam’s Con Dao archipelago (and Con Son island in particular) as tourism destinations since the formal reunification of Vietnam in 1975.
Philip Hayward, Giang Thuy Huu Tran
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Trauma and Affective Spill [PDF]
, 2015 A review of Bryoni Trezise, Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory(Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Willis, Emma
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Lugares de memoria traumática y turismo: paradigmas analíticos y problemáticas
Investigaciones Turísticas, 2018 Desde el último tercio del siglo XX, los sitios relacionados con memorias dolorosas o traumáticas han desarrollado estrategias de turistización que los han convertido, en más de un caso, en atractivos turísticos de primer nivel.
David González Vázquez +1 more
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Ambivalent heritage: the im/possibility of museumifying the Overseas Chinese in South China [PDF]
, 2020 The past two decades have witnessed an 'Overseas Chinese museum fever' across China. By commemorating heroic figures and treasuring contributions of the Overseas Chinese to the motherland, the state-led museum representation of the Overseas Chinese has ...
Wang, C., Wang, C.
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Interrogating spaces of and for the dead as ‘alternative space’: cemeteries, corpses and sites of Dark Tourism. [PDF]
, 2016 This paper considers spaces associated with death and the dead body as social spaces with an ambiguous character. The experience of Western societies has tended to follow a path of an increased sequestration of death and the dead body over the last two ...
Biran +24 more
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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 ...
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Tourism in the European economic crisis: Mediatised worldmaking and new tourist imaginaries in Greece [PDF]
, 2016 The paper interrogates the rationale and origins of changing imaginaries of tourism in Greece in the context of the current economic crisis. We detect a radical change in the ‘picture’ of the country that circulates in global media conduits (YouTube ...
Korstanje, M, Tzanelli, R
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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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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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Dark events: commemoration and collective memory in the former Yugoslavia [PDF]
, 2018 This paper develops a new understanding of the relative darkness of commemorative events that are linked to tragedy and suffering, by using examples of the many such events that take place within the countries of the former state of Yugoslavia.
Kennell, James +2 more
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