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Curiosity in calamity: How personal schadenfreude shapes disaster-tourism intentions. [PDF]
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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 ...
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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.
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, 2013 Research confirmed that the cemetery is the destination of educational migrations, which are usually part of cultural, ethnical, sentimental or general tourism. The act of learning takes place during individual or group trips, as well as during ordinary walks. Let us remember that the 19th c. ideas of the American rural cemetery, French park – cemetery
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Slavery, Contested Heritage and Thanatourism
International Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Administration, 2001Summary This article introduces a collection of eight revised papers that focus on the connection between slavery and tourism. After tracing the history of the former from its origins to the present day, and after providing some examples of related attractions, it confronts a number of dilemmas associated with their juxtaposition.
Graham M S Dann
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Thanatourism: A Comparative Approach
2018Philip Stone (2012) has proposed a paradigmatic approach to thana (death) tourism in contemporary secular Western, “death-denying” societies, departing from Giddens’ (1991) argument on the weakening of “ontological security” in the contemporary world. Stone proposed that sites of dark tourism constitute what could be seen as a functional substitute for
Erik Cohen
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In sunshine and in shadow: adolescent girls and thanatourism in the early American Republic
Journal of Tourism History, 2020Children’s and adolescents’ tourist activities and patterns before the late nineteenth century have not garnered much scholarly attention.
Sharon Halevi
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