True Crime in Portugal and in the world: an intercultural perspective on murder and serial homicide within thanatourism [PDF]
, 2022 This dissertation aims to better understand how dark tourism can be exploited in Portugal and if the country has heritage that can induce to a larger interest on this intercultural phenomenon. Furthermore, the focus is established on serial killers and the excitement around them that has been continuously growing, demonstrating how they are present in ...
Seabra, Isabel de Nunes
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Dark tourism and memorial tourism: Nexus and divergences between theoretical models
European Journal of Tourism Research, 2018 In the context of the huge diversification in the field of cultural heritage, there are nowadays many touristic places whose main appeal lies in the connection with tragic events.
David Vázquez
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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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Sebald's Ghosts:Travelling Among the Dead in The Rings of Saturn [PDF]
, 2012 A revised version of the earlier article of the same name, on the relations between Sebald's work and dark travel and ...
Cooke, Simon
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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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Ghosts Among Us: Local Government Support for Dark Tourism Through Long-Range Planning Policy
Tourism and HospitalityWhen a community is thrust into the spotlight due to a tragic event or has a reputation given to it by folklore, it joins the pantheon of dark tourism destinations.
Beth A. Wielde Heidelberg
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Development of memorial tourism as a new concept - possibilities and restrictions
Tourism and Hospitality Management, 2015 The purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the meaning of dark and memorial tourism better, as well as to create basic preconditions for relatively new concept of tourism in Croatia, as dark and memorial tourism is well defined subject ...
Nataša Drvenkar +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...
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Thanatourism in London and the Metropolitan Imaginary
Thanatourism is often seen as a modern phenomenon. In contrast, this chapter shows that it was a leading feature of the guidebooks to London in the eighteenth century.
Catterall, Pippa
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Brand activation in thanatourism: a comparative study of the Bram Stoker Festival and the Whitby Goth Weekend [PDF]
, 2022 The life and work of Dubliner Bram Stoker influenced a niche tourism product popularly consumed today - gothic festivals. Gothic or “dark tourism” (thanatourism) festivals attract high spending tourists, usually in off-season, with implications for ...
Golz, Luisa
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