What are the different types of dark tourism?
There are a variety of types of disaster tourism that falls under the pillar of dark tourism, which include:
- Holocaust tourism.
- Disaster tourism.
- Grave tourism.
- Cold war tourism.
- Nuclear tourism.
- Prison and persecution site tourism.
What is meaning of dark tourism?
Dark tourism refers to visiting places where some of the darkest events of human history have unfolded. That can include genocide, assassination, incarceration, ethnic cleansing, war or disaster — either natural or accidental.
What is the dark tourism spectrum?
The dark tourism spectrum is the range of touristic sites, activities and attractions that can be labelled dark. Dark tourism is often referred to as the ‘act of travel to sites associated with death, suffering and the seemingly macabre’ (Stone, 2006, p. 146).
What is grave tourism?
Today, cemetery tourism is a growing market as traveler’s trek to graveyards around the world to reflect on their lives, seek out the grave of a famous person, or travel to learn more about their family by finding the final resting place of loved ones.
Who created the dark tourism spectrum?
Stone (2006) proposed a spectrum on dark tourism with one end ‘sites of death and suffering’ and the other end being ‘sites associated with death and suffering.
What is thanatourism?
Thanatourism or peace tourism: Perceived value at a North Korean resort from an indigenous perspective. How does perceived value affect travelers’ satisfaction and loyalty? Dark tourism is also known in academia as Thanatourism, which derives from the ancient Greek word thanatos, or the personification of death.
Are dark tourism and thanatourism different from heritage tourism?
Furthermore some researchers are unconvinced that dark tourism or thanatourism are sufficiently distinct from heritage tourism to warrant their adoption as explanatory frameworks.
What is the tourism-death relationship?
The tourism-death relationship is an increasingly popular theme for conferences, edited collections and monographs. It has also attracted the attention of scholars in a wide range of disciplines and fields beyond tourism studies/tourism management.
Does mortality mediation explain dark tourism consumption in non-Western settings?
Stone and Sharpley make no claims that the theory has universal relevance but nevertheless the mortality mediation model has been used rather uncritically to explain dark tourism consumption in non-Western settings (for example, Biran et al., 2014 ).