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City Cemeteries as Cultural Attractions: Towards an Understanding of Foreign Visitors’ Attitude at the National Graveyard in Budapest [PDF]

open access: yesDETUROPE, 2015
The paper aims to reposition urban cemeteries within the tourism supply and to showcase their values as cultural tourism products that can enrich visitors’ experiences.
Brigitta Pécsek
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In Search of Traces of the Past: Comics as a Medium for History Great and Small [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In Search of Traces of the Past: Comics as a Medium for History Great and SmallThe analysis of the article’s author focuses on the graphic novels The Property by Rutu Modan and We Won’t See Auschwitz by Jérémy Dres.
Czaja, Justyna
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Economic Rationality of Residents Living in the Area Prone to Merapi Volcanic Disaster [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The research concerned here was to know the economic rationality of residents who dwelled again in their former village after the eruption of Mount Merapi in 2010 and refused to be relocated by the government.
Napsiah, N. (Napsiah)
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Confronting mortality moments: death, dying and the consumption of dark tourism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Dark tourism is the act of travel and visitation to sites, attractions and exhibitions that (re)present death, disaster or the seemingly macabre. The phenomenon has received increasing media and academic attention, especially within the context of ...
PHELAN, CHRIS
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Development of "dark" tourism in the contemporary society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The paper focuses on the development of „dark“ tourism as a type of special interest tourism. The study included analysis of the definition of „dark“ tourism, tourist motivations for this type of tourism, Stone' s typology of dark destination offers ...
Minić Natalija
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Travel, slavery, memory: thanatourism in the French Atlantic

open access: yesPostcolonial 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...
openaire   +1 more source

Promoting phantasmal tourism for America’s ‘roads to hell’ could help drive rural economic development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
With increasing concerns about the economic and environmental impacts of traditional mass-tourism, ‘niche’ destination’ tourism is becoming an increasingly popular alternative. David J.
Nemeth, David J.
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“Spectacle, Maintenance and Materiality: Women and Death in Modern Brittany” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Both remarkable and everyday, women’s ritual maintenance of the memory of the dead was often the subject of paintings, sculpture, photography and popular illustration produced in late 19th and early 20th century Brittany.
Maura Coughlin
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Tourist experience: Contemporary perspectives. Sharpley, R. & Stone, P. (Eds.). Oxon, UK: Routledge (2011) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The consumption of experiences has been acknowledged as a key research topic in tourism studies, since everything in a destination can be experienced by tourists, whether it be places, people, or ...
Agapito, Dora
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