Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
My library | Help | Advanced Book Search | Web History | Sign in

Books

Dark Tourism:

[the Atrraction of Death and Disaster]
Front Cover
2 Reviews
Cengage Learning EMEA, 2000 - Business & Economics - 184 pages
This book sets out to explore 'dark tourism'; that is, the representation of inhuman acts, and how these are interpreted for visitors at a number of places throughout the world, for example the sites of concentration camps in both Western and Eastern Europe. Many people wish to experience the reality behind the media images, or are prompted to find out more by a personal association with places or events. The phenomenon raises ethical issues over the status and nature of objects, the extent of their interpretation, the appropriate political and managerial response and the nature of the experience as perceived by the visitor, their residents and local residents. Events, sites, types of visit and 'host' reactions are considered in order to construct the parameters of the concept of 'dark tourism'. Many acts of inhumanity are celebrated as heritage sites in Britain (for example, the Tower of London, Edinburgh Castle), and the Berlin Wall has become a significant attraction despite claiming many victims.
  

What people are saying - Write a review

Review: Dark Tourism

User Review  - Mary Louise - Goodreads

Why do people flock to death camps of Poland or the death site of an American President? The author investigates how significant "Dark Tourism" has become, forcing the reader to contemplate sticky ethical issues with the enterprise. Read full review

Related books

Dark Tourist: Sightseeing in the World's Most Unlikely Holiday Destinations
Dark Tourist: Sightseeing in the World's Most Unlikely Holiday Destinations
Dom Joly
No preview available - 2011
Tourism
Tourism
Chris Cooper
No preview available - 2005
Traumascapes: The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy
Traumascapes: The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy
Maria M. Tumarkin
Limited preview - 2005
All related books »

Selected pages

Contents

Intimations of Dark Tourism
1
Instances of Dark Tourism
13
The Third Reich and the Final Solution
27
The Death Camps of Poland
46
Covering History The Interpretation of the Channel Islands Occupation 193945
66
The Death Site of a President
77
War Sites of the First and Second World Wars
99
North Cyprus Disappointing Performance with Dark Edges
129
Dislocation The US Holocaust Memorial Museum
145
The Future of Dark Tourism From the Final Solution to the End of History
162
Bibliography
170
Index
180
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Dark tourism
Dark tourism
J. John Lennon,Malcolm Foley
Snippet view - 2000

Common terms and phrases

Alderney artefacts aspects assassination associated atrocity Auschwitz Auschwitz KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau become Berlin Birkenau Bletchley Park bombing British building celebrated cemeteries central centre Channel Islands Checkpoint Charlie clearly commemoration commodified concentration camps conflict context County Historical Foundation coverage culture Dallas County Historical dark tourism debate display economic elements Europe example exhibition experience film former German Underground Hospital Gestapo graves Greek Cypriot Holocaust Holocaust Memorial Museum ideological images Imperial War Museum interest interpretation Japanese Jewish Holocaust Jews Kennedy landscape Lee Harvey Oswald liberation located military National Nazi Normandy North Cyprus Northern Cyprus occupation offered operation Oswieczim past Pearl Harbor period photographs Poland political present prisoners quoted reality remains remembrance representation Republic of Northern Sachsenhausen Second World significant Sixth Floor television Texas tour tourism product tourist attraction TRNC tunnels Turkish Republic twentieth century USS Arizona Memorial victims visitors Wannsee Conference Washington

References to this book

From other books

Performing tourist places
Performing tourist places
J2rgen Ole Bμrenholdt
Limited preview - 2004
Classic Reviews in Tourism
Classic Reviews in Tourism
Christopher P. Cooper
Limited preview - 2003
All Book Search results »

From Google Scholar

Slavery, Contested Heritage and Thanatourism
Graham MS Dann, AV Seaton
Sources of Slavery--Destinations of Slavery: The Silences and ...
AV Seaton
Contested Identities: The Dissonant Heritage of European Town ...
David Bruce, Oliver Creighton - 2006 - International Journal of Heritage Studies
Dutiful tourism: Encountering the Cambodian genocide
Rachel Hughes, Rachel Hughes - 2008 - Asia Pacific Viewpoint
All Scholar search results »

References from web pages

Tourism Management : Dark tourism: the attraction of death and ...
Thanatourism or dark tourism, a term popularised by Seaton (1996), has been used as a portmanteau expression to encompass the use of sites associated with ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/ retrieve/ pii/ S0261517701000553

Dark Tourism
As the first book dedicated to a broad study of 'dark tourism', ... They say "Our argument is that 'dark tourism' is an intimation of post-modernity" (p11). ...
alanmachintopics.net/ Dark-Tourism

Dark tourism | News.com.au Excess Baggage Blog
But some elements of dark tourism – travelling to watch a public hanging is ... Read the full extract on dark tourism from Lonely Planet BLUELIST 2007 and ...
blogs.news.com.au/ news/ travel/ excessbaggage/ index.php/ newstravel/ comments/ dark_tourism/

Shedding Light on Dark Tourism
NYU Senior Courtney C. Reed discusses the phenomenon of dark tourism - travel to the sites of disasters and tragedies.
www.gonomad.com/ features/ 0704/ dark-tourism.html

NET-GOLD Archives -- June 2005 (#210)
TOURISM AND TRAVEL: RESOURCES : SOCIAL ISSUES: Dark Tourism: Selected Resources in Publication and on the Internet "People are fascinated with death and ...
listserv.temple.edu/ cgi-bin/ wa?A2=ind0506& L=net-gold& P=30166

darkts mlecture Dark Tourism new phenomenon 20th ppt Presentation
Dark Tourism : Part of the human condition is the grim fascination with horror and atrocity. Dark Tourism Jack the Ripper’s first Victim – London, ...
www.authorstream.com/ presentation/ Alohomora-26901-darkts-mlecture-Dark-Tourism-new-phenomenon-20th-Century-societies...

Dark tourism: understanding visitor motivation at sites of death ...
Leading the field are Lennon and Foley who labeled it Dark Tourism, Seaton who coined the term Thanatourism, and Rojek who developed the concept of Black ...
repositories.tdl.org/ handle/ 1969.1/ 89?show=full

World Wide Words: Dark tourism
Visiting historical sites concerned with sites of tragedy has been termed 'Dark tourism'.
www.worldwidewords.org/ turnsofphrase/ tp-dar2.htm

Dark Tourism: A Facination With Death And Attrocity?
Dark Tourism, a phrase coined by the authors Foley and Lennon in 1996, is one of the many newly found terms applied to the visitation of sites associated ...
www.useless-knowledge.com/ 1234/ jan/ article403.html

Dark Tourism - Voyage into the Dark » Blog Archive » About Dark ...
Dark tourism - the tourism of sites of tragedy - may be a recent growth area for the travel industry but it’s not a new phenomenon. ...
www.darktourism.net/ v1/ ?p=1

Bibliographic information

QR code for Dark Tourism
TitleDark Tourism: [the Atrraction of Death and Disaster]
Tourism Series
Tourism, Leisure & Recreation
AuthorsJ. John Lennon, Malcolm. Foley
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherCengage Learning EMEA, 2000
ISBN0826450644, 9780826450647
Length184 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Business & Economics / Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan