Dark Tourism

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 Kazakhstan's 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. Thanatourism's final frontiers? Visits to cemeteries, churchyards and funerary sites as sacred and secular pilgrimage