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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).
Prokopis A. Christou +1 more
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Slavery, Contested Heritage and Thanatourism
International Journal of Hospitality & 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, A. V. Seaton
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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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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.
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The Thanatourist: Collected tales of the thanatourism experience
2022Whilst 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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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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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
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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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International Journal of Tourism Research, 2011
AbstractThis paper examines the underlying factors that affected perceived value among South Korean tourists who visited the North Korean Mt Kumgang resort. Results identified emotional, functional and economic values as core elements that directly affected guest satisfaction, which influenced intentions to recommend and revisit.
Choong‐Ki Lee +3 more
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AbstractThis paper examines the underlying factors that affected perceived value among South Korean tourists who visited the North Korean Mt Kumgang resort. Results identified emotional, functional and economic values as core elements that directly affected guest satisfaction, which influenced intentions to recommend and revisit.
Choong‐Ki Lee +3 more
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Thanatourism in the early 21st century: moral panics, ulterior motives and alterior desires.
2004This chapter sketches out an overview of thanatourism's progress in the UK and the USA including its academic development, the moral panic that has surrounded it in the media, the debate about its motivations, its political and ideological effects, and its future, including the question as to whether it can properly be categorized as a single entity.
Lennon, John J., Seaton, A. V.
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