The darker side of travel: the theory and practice of dark tourism
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK Channel View Publications ©2009
Series:Aspects of tourism
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-273) and index
Shedding light on dark tourism / Richard Sharpley -- Making absent death present : consuming dark tourism in contemporary society / Philip R. Stone -- Dark tourism : mediating between the dead and the living / Tony Walter -- Dark tourism : morality and new moral spaces / Philip R. Stone -- Purposeful otherness : approaches to the management of thanatourism / Tony Seaton -- (Re)presenting the macabre : interpretation, kitschification and authenticity / Richard Sharpley and Philip R. Stone -- Contested national tragedies : an ethical dimension / Craig Wight -- Dark tourism and political ideology : towards a governance model / Richard Sharpley -- "It's a bloody guide" : fun, fear and a lighter side of dark tourism at The Dungeon visitor attractions, UK / Philip R. Stone -- Battlefield tourism : bringing the organised violence back to life / Frank Baldwin and Richard Sharpley -- "Genocide tourism" / John Beech -- Museums, memorials and plantation houses in the Black Atlantic : slavery and the development of dark tourism / Alan Rice -- Life, death and dark tourism : future research directions and concluding comments / Richard Sharpley and Philip R. Stone
Offers a comprehensive analysis of dark tourism. Drawing on literature, numerous examples and introducing conceptual perspectives, this book develops a theoretically informed foundation for examining the demand for and supply of dark tourism experiences
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 275 pages)
ISBN:1845411161
9781845411169

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