Dark Tourism
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-85567-520-9 (ISBN)
Description
Examines "dark tourism", where the sites of inhuman acts such as the concentration camps of World War II and the Berlin Wall become tourist destinations. These phenomena raise ethical issues over the status and nature of objects and what constitutes the right political and managerial response.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85567-520-9 (9781855675209)
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Content
Part I Concepts: tourism and dark tourism; approaches to understanding dark tourism; supply and demand for dark tourism; the management of dark tourism; dark tourism and tourism policy. Part II Contexts: case analyses; genocide; the fall of communism; the interpretation of war and battle; the loss of innocence. Part III Dark tourism of the future.