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City Cemeteries as Cultural Attractions: Towards an Understanding of Foreign Visitors’ Attitude at the National Graveyard in Budapest [PDF]
DETUROPE, 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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Guided by the dark: From thanatopsistothanatourism [PDF]
International Journal of Heritage Studies, 1996 Abstract Death is the one heritage that everyone shares and it has been an element of tourism longer than any other form of heritage. This paper looks at the historical development of Thanatoptic elements in travel and shows how the Dark Tourism to which this issue is devoted can be located within a historical tradition which sheds light on how it ...
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Thanatourism: Case studies in travel to the dark side
, 2015 Thanatourism, or dark tourism, is an increasingly pervasive feature of the contemporary tourism landscape. Travel to have actual or symbolic ‘encounters with death’ is not a new phenomenon and is now one of the fastest growing areas for debate and ...
Mandelartz, Pascal, Johnston, Tony
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Thanatourism and the commodification of space in post-war Croatia and Bosnia
, 2010 Book chapter contribution on thanatourism in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia.This paper presents a detailed case study of thanatourism in three post-conflict cities in ex-Yugoslavia by examining the commodification of sites associated with the 1990s ...
Johnston, Tony
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Thanatourism. From 'Death Space' to Tourism Space
, 2013 Książka składa się z sześciu rozdziałów. W rozdziale pierwszym autor wyjaśnia koncepcję, cele pracy i założenia, wraz z krótką dyskusją terminologiczną oraz analizą wybranej literatury. Rozdziały drugi i trzeci obejmują zagadnienia związane z kulturowymi
Tanaś, Sławoj
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Consuming post-disaster destinations: The case of Sichuan, China [PDF]
, 2014 Addressing the call for a better understanding of tourist behavior in relation to post-disaster destinations, this study explores the motivations and intentions of potential domestic tourists (from non-hit areas) to visit Sichuan, China in the aftermath ...
Eichhorn, V. +14 more
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Thanatourism,Caminata Nocturna, and the Complex Geopolitics of Mexico's Parque EcoAlberto
Southern Communication Journal, 2015 This article provides readers with a critical analysis of Mexico's Parque EcoAlberto. Utilizing some of the theoretical work of interdisciplinary scholars who are interested in the study of “thanatourism,” the authors illustrate how this park, with its Caminata Nocturna (night hike), is much more than simply a “dark” tourist attraction that deters ...
Hasian, Marouf A., Jr. +2 more
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Thanatourism - the Controversial Face of Cultural Tourism
, 2006 Apart from its leisure, cognitive and specialist functions, tourism also has an educational function. It is in the context of cognition and education that one should perceive journeys to the places of disasters, tragedies and death, defined in 1996 as ...
Tanaś, Sławoj
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Thanatourism: A study on understanding tourist motivations who visit Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park [PDF]
, 2006 Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Turizm İşletmeciliği Ana Bilim DalıÖlüm ve yıkım unsurları insanları etkilemektedir. Basit bir örnek vermekgerekirse, bir trafik kazasının yakınından geçen araç sürücüleri yavaşlayarak olayıanlamaya çalışmaktadırlar.
Kaya, Ozan
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, 2023 This study explores the development of Mount Vernon as a historic site dedicated to promoting patriotic memories of the American Revolution during the Sectional Crisis, Reconstruction, and Gilded Age which resulted in building national identity focused ...
Matthews, Lisa Janeen
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