This book explores the multifaceted world of dark tourism and delves into the evolving perceptions and complex narratives surrounding tourism at sites of tragedy and historical significance. The chapters in this book were originally published in Tourism Recreation Research.
This book explores the multifaceted world of dark tourism and delves into the evolving perceptions and complex narratives surrounding tourism at sites of tragedy and historical significance.
Divided into three insightful parts, the text explores key aspects of dark tourism. Part I explores changing attitudes toward dark tourism, examining how tourist preferences and gender perspectives influence experiences at sites related to death, disaster, and heritage. Part II investigates how disasters influence tourism, exploring case studies from Cambodia, Thailand, and recent bushfires in Australia, and the impact on tourist behavior and site representation. The third section focuses on how memorials and heritage sites are managed and interpreted, with case studies from concentration camps to cemeteries, shedding light on the ethics of visitation and memory preservation.
Dark Tourism: Perspectives, Post-Disaster Contexts, and Memorial Sites is an essential read for students and scholars of tourism studies as well as for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of dark tourism.
The chapters in this book were originally published in Tourism Recreation Research.
Preface PART I
1. Have we illuminated the dark? Shifting perspectives on
dark tourism
2. Staging fear: exploring how a dark fun factory is
co-performed
3. Tourists preferences for attributes and services in
battlefield dark tourism itineraries
4. Demystifying destination attachment,
self-congruity and revisiting intention in dark tourism destinations through
the gender-based lens
5. Bone chapels: who might be interested in visiting
and why?
6. Ambiguity and dilution in Kazakhstans Gulag heritage PART II
7.
Understanding the depersonalisation process in post-disaster sites
8. The
photograph: tourist responses to a visual interpretation of a disaster
9.
Tragedy and heritage: the Case of Cambodia
10. Tsunami and flash-floods:
contrasting modes of tourism-related disasters in Thailand
11. Will tourists
travel to post-disaster destinations? A case of 2019 Australian bushfires
from a Chinese tourists perspective
12. Another weekend away looking for
dead bodies: battlefield tourism on the Somme and in Flanders PART III
13.
Tourism to the memorial site and museum of the former concentration camp
14.
A tale of two camps: contrasting approaches to interpretation and
commemoration in the sites at Terezin and Lety, Czech Republic.
15. Medical
volunteers as accidental tourists: humanitarianism and the European refugee
crisis.
16. Thanatourisms final frontiers? Visits to cemeteries, churchyards
and funerary sites as sacred and secular pilgrimage
Tzung- Cheng (TC) Huan is Professor at National Chiayi University and former President of Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan. He is also the Editor- in- Chief of Tourism Recreation Research and a member of the UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organization) Panel of Tourism Experts. He has been honored by the 2011 2012 Outstanding Reviewer Award from Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, the 2013, 2017, and 2018 Emerald Literati Awards, and the 2018 Publons Peer Review Award.
