Children, Young People and Dark Tourism

Mary Margaret Kerr, Philip R Stone, Rebecca H. Price, Mary Margaret Kerr, Philip R Stone, Rebecca H. Price

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032291697
• eBook ISBN: 9781000608205
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Industria dell'ospitalità e del turismo
• Index: Business

This book is the first its kind to offer an innovative examination of the intersecting influences, contexts, and challenges within the field of children's dark tourism. It also outlines novel conceptualizations and methods for scholarship in this overlooked field.

Presently, tourism research, and in dark tourism specifically, relies primarily on adult-centered theories and data collection methods. However, these approaches are inadequate for understanding and developing children's experiences and perspectives. This book seeks to inform and inspire research on children's experiences of dark tourism. Designed to appeal to students and scholars, it brings together insights from leading experts. The book focuses on five themes, to explore the conceptual and historic origins of children's dark tourism, developmental contexts, child perspectives, specific contexts relevant to children's encounters, and methodological approaches.

This book is aimed at an international array of scholars and students with inherent research interests in the contemporary commodification of death and 'difficult heritage' within the visitor economy. Thus, the book will provide a multi-disciplinary scope within the fields of history, heritage studies, childhood studies, psychology, education, sociology, human geography, and tourism studies. The volume is primarily intended for undergraduate and postgraduate study, as well as scholars and tourism professionals.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Part I Dark Tourism and Childhood
• Part II Children as Tourists: Development in Context
• Part III Dark Tourism and Interpretation: A Child’s Perspective
• Part IV Children within Dark Tourism: Contexts and Experiences
• Part V Dark Tourism Research and Children: Methodological Approaches
• Epilogue: ‘Monsters and Mediating Mortality Moments’: Dark Tourism and Childhood Encounters
• Index