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Death Sells: Thanatourism Theming as a Sustainability Strategy at Gotlands Museum

, 2019
Over the past century the phenomenon of thanatourism, or dark tourism, has become increasingly popular, with tourists now able to encounter death at a wide range of sites across the world. While much scholarship has focused on tourism at sites of disaster and atrocity, less research has taken place into thanatourism in a museum context.
Uziallo, Katherine
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A REVIEW OF "THE ANTHROPOCENE PROJECT"

Art/Research International, 2020
Here, we engage The Anthropocene Project: a 2019 art event that features photographic exhibits in art galleries and museums, both across Canada and internationally.
Shannon Stevens, Richard Wainwright
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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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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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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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From Torture Chamber to Museum of Legal Studies – A Short History of the Medieval Crime Museum in Rothenburg

Journal on European History of Law, 2020
The following article highlights various facets of the Medieval Crime Museum, which is located in the heart of the middle franconian town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber. In addition to a deep insight into the museum’s history, which goes back to the end of
Markus Hirte
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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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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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A critical review of dark tourism studies

Hungarian Geographical Bulletin
The topic of dark tourism emerged in the last three decades as tourism became more accessible. It allows forgotten history to be revised and transferred to the public.
Aigerim Assylkhanova, Gyula Nagy, Cezar Morar, Zhanassyl Teleubay, Lajos Boros   +4 more
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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, Lluís Mundet i Cerdan   +1 more
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