dark tourism

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    Conflicts battlefields indigenous peoples and tourism addressing dissonant heritage

    Description The purpose of this paper is to examine the omission of Indigenous narratives in battlefields and sites of conflicts while also highlighting how certain battlefields and sites of conflicts have attempted to address dissonant heritage by diversifying interpretation strategies and...
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    Pilgrims and patriots Australian tourist experiences at Gallipoli

    Description The purpose of this paper is to explore the Australian tourist experience at Gallipoli in order to better understand how tourists approach and engage with battlefield sites and how the experience may transform them. Specific attention is paid to the role of interpretation in shaping...
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    Mark Twain and The Innocents Abroad illuminating the tourist gaze on death

    Description In 1867, the author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, undertook a great pleasure excursion across Europe. Visiting a range of sites, from those associated with the Christian Cult of Death to the notable cultural heritage attractions of the time, Twain published...
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    When death is the destination the business of death tourism despite legal and social

    Description This paper views the growing popularity of death tourism which directs the confrontation with grief and mortality with the expressed purpose of orchestrating travel that culminates in assistance to end one’s life. The specific aims of this paper are to describe the emerging...
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    Dark tourism revisited a supply demand conceptualisation

    Description The purpose of this paper is to advance the conceptualisation of dark tourism by evaluating both the supply-side drivers for dark tourism development and the demand-side motivations for visiting two dark heritage sites in Cyprus International Journal of Culture, Tourism and...
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    Dark tourism scholarship a critical review

    Description Commonly referred to as dark tourism or thanatourism, the act of touristic travel to sites of or sites associated with death and disaster has gained significant attention with media imaginations and academic scholarship. However, despite a growing body of literature on the...
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    New perspectives on dark tourism

    Description The purpose of this paper is to introduce the papers in this Special Issue of IJCTHR on dark tourism. These papers take either a demand-side, supply-side, or integrated demand-and-supply side perspective to understanding dark tourism. Collectively, the papers explore tourist...
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    Dark tourism shops selling dark and difficult products

    Description The purpose of this paper is to analyse the position of the museum shop within dark tourism sites. In doing so, it argues that the shop has the potential to act as a further meaning-making vehicle by reconfirming the museum mission within its merchandise selection. The analysis of...
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    Require html project on tourism

    any body having html project on tourism?
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