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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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A cohort analysis of the perceived market potential of thanatourism in Malaysia
Thanatourism has experienced significant growth, both in terms of its commercial potential and scholarly attention. In Malaysia, the government has expressed interest in developing thanatourism as a source of tourism revenue and a means of preserving the
Spencer, Hedley Mogindol +2 more
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Sebald's Ghosts:Travelling Among the Dead in The Rings of Saturn
, 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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, 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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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: 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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Dark Tourism in Southern Spain (Córdoba): An Analysis of the Demand. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 Millán MGD +2 more
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A shot in the dark? Developing a new conceptual framework for thanatourism
, 2007 Whilst tourists’ fascination with visiting sites associated with death and human tragedy has received considerable academic and media attention, the scholarly literature on so-called ‘dark’ or thanatourism remains fragmented.
Dunkley, Ria Ann +2 more
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“Museo gráfico como estrategia de tanoturismo en la ciudad de Guayaquil”
, 2021 pdfEl objetivo principal de la investigación es identificar y analizar los sitios y eventos de carácter oscuro como recursos para el desarrollo del tanoturismo en la ciudad de Guayaquil, el cual responde a la problemática de desconocimiento de la ...
Cruz Carpio, Evelyn Valeria +1 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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