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War and thanatourism: Waterloo 1815–1914
Annals of Tourism Research, 1999Abstract This paper examines the historical evolution of Waterloo as a tourism mega-attraction. It locates battlefield visits as a form of thanatourism and explores the development of Waterloo through a sight sacralization model. The model proposes that an attractions appeal is achieved through progressive stages of marking which comes to invest it ...
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Tourism Recreation Research, 2002
This paper examines the historical and contemporary status of cemeteries, churchyards and other funerary sites, and their textual characteristics, as pilgrimage goals. The first part of the paper traces their historical evolution as pilgrimage goals internationally, their discursive features, and the activities associated with visiting them. The second
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This paper examines the historical and contemporary status of cemeteries, churchyards and other funerary sites, and their textual characteristics, as pilgrimage goals. The first part of the paper traces their historical evolution as pilgrimage goals internationally, their discursive features, and the activities associated with visiting them. The second
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Aura, thanatoplaces, and the construction of thanatourism emotions
Journal of Heritage Tourism, 2021The present study addresses thanatourism emotions by focusing on tourists’ individual perceptions and the role of the thanatourism place (referred to as the thanatoplace).
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Cruelty, age, and thanatourism
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2006Two areas of research for testing Nell's theory are suggested. One is cruelty's seemingly negative correlation with age, which would confirm its linkage with testosterone, sex, and dominance. The other is the special field of leisure activity called thanatourism, that is, the transformation of loci of human horror into tourist attractions.
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Chapter 5. Purposeful Otherness: Approaches to the Management of Thanatourism
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Thanatourism: Witnessing Difficult Pasts
Tourist Studies, 2011This study looks at difficult heritage tourism as a form of visiting that to a great extent happens through the tourist’s body as locus. Actual tourists are craving for real experiences in order to feel alive and difficult heritage sites offer this experience of presence to excess. In addition tourists are also interested in witnessing the past and its
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The Fromelles Interment 2010: dominant narrative and reflexive thanatourism
Current Issues in Tourism, 2013The heritage and tourism appeal of the First World War (1914–1918) battlefield sites holds similarities with past capital cities’ attractions and the cultural heritage, built structure and commemorative events fostered by government-backed narrative.
Clarke, Peter, McAuley, Andrew
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The Thanatourist: Collected tales of the thanatourism experience
2007Whilst tourists' fascination with visiting sites associated with death and human tragedy has received considerable academic and media attention, the scholarly literature on socalled 'dark' or thanatourism remains fragmented. Subsequently, this thesis draws on a wide range of interdisciplinary literature and in depth, qualitative fieldwork to provide ...
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