Dark Tourism

Practice and interpretation

Glenn Hooper, John J. Lennon, Glenn Hooper, John J. Lennon

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781472452436
• eBook ISBN: 9781317154747
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Industry

Dark Tourism, as well as other terms such as Thanatourism and Grief Tourism, has been much discussed in the past two decades. This volume provides a comprehensive exploration of the subject from the point of view of both practice - how Dark Tourism is performed, what practical and physical considerations exist on site - and interpretation - how Dark Tourism is understood, including issues pertaining to ethics, community involvement and motivation. It showcases a wide range of examples, drawing on the expertise of academics with management and consultancy experience, as well as those from within the social sciences and humanities. Contributors discuss the historical development of Dark Tourism, including its earlier incarnations across Europe, but they also consider its future as a strand within academic discourse, as well as its role within tourism development. Case studies include holocaust sites in Germany, as well as analysis of the legacy of war in places such as the Channel Islands and Malta. Ethical and myriad marketing considerations are also discussed in relation to Ireland, Brazil, Rwanda, Romania, U.K., Nepal and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

This book covers issues that are of interest to students and staff across a spectrum of disciplines, from management to the arts and humanities, including conservation and heritage, site management, marketing and community participation.

Index

• academic history 91, 92
• Alderney 100, 101, 102
• amateur recordings 177, 180–3
• amnesia see forgetting
• Anne Frank House 75, 116–17
• anniversaries 161, 162–3, 169
• appropriateness:
  • of attractions 27–8, 114
  • of locations 97
  • of memorials 160
• archaeological excavations 101, 103–6
• atrocity heritage 70, 81
• Auschwitz-Birkenau 76–7, 78, 79, 112–13, 177
• authenticity 29–30, 50, 77

• Bermuda 19–21
• black heritage 20
• blogs 140–1, 150–1
• body genre 176–7
• branding 31–2
• Brazil see Rio de Janeiro
• Buchenwald 78–80
• bunkers 96, 97–100
• Burma railway 16
• bus travel 148–52, 153–5, 156–7

• Candelária Massacre 189
• carceral tours 42–3
• Channel Islands:
  • heritage sites 19, 97–8
  • history 18, 96–7
  • legacy sites 98, 100–6
  • war narratives 17–19, 98–100
• Charlie Hebdo 182–3
• Chernobyl 5
• Churchillian paradigm 99, 106
• commemorative services 162–3
• commercialisation 27–8, 114
• commodification 7, 44–5, 110, 125
• compassion 109, 115–16, 117
• concentration/death camps:
  • buildings 29–30, 76–7, 102
  • heritage contexts 26, 70–2
  • interpretation 29–30, 77–80
  • motivations 32–6, 73–6
  • tourism contexts 26–8, 72–3
• Constable, John 84, 86–90, 92
• contemporary memorials 161–4, 167
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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction
• Is all tourism dark?
• The long shadow: marketing Dachau
• Prison tourism: exploring the spectacle of punishment in the UK
• Patrimony, engineered remembrance and ancestral vampires: appraising thanatouristic resources in Ireland and Sicily
• Death camp tourism: interpretation and management
• Guilty landscapes and the selective reconstruction of the past: Dedham Vale and the murder in the Red Barn
• A culturally constructed darkness: dark legacies and dark heritage in the Channel Islands
• A light in dark places? Analysing the impact of dark tourism experiences on everyday life
• The undead and dark tourism: Dracula tourism in Romania
• Genocide tourism in Rwanda: contesting the concept of the ‘dark tourist’
• Everyday darkness and catastrophic events: riding Nepal’s buses through peace, war, and an earthquake
• From living memory to social history: commemoration and interpretation of a contemporary dark event
• Experiencing dark heritage live
• Dark tourism in the brightest of cities: Rio de Janeiro and the favela tour
• Select bibliography
• Index