ABSTRACT
Dark Tourism, including visitation to places such as murder sites, battlefields and cemeteries is a growing phenomenon, as well as an emergent area of scholarly interest. Despite this interest, the intersecting domains of dark tourism and place identity have been largely overlooked in the academic literature and this book aims to fill this void.
The three main themes of Visitor Motivation, Destination Management and Place Interpretation are addressed in this book from both a demand and supply perspective by examining a variety of case studies from around the world. This edited volume takes the dark tourism discussion to another level by reinforcing the critical intersecting domains of dark tourism and place identity and, in particular, highlighting the importance of understanding this connection for visitors and destination managers.
Written by leading academics in the area, this stimulating volume of 19 chapters will be valuable reading for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students in a range of discipline areas; researchers and academics interested in dark tourism; and, other interested stakeholders including those in the tourism industry, government bodies and community groups.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |83 pages
Part I Visitormotivation
chapter |18 pages
3 African Americans at sites of darkness
chapter |14 pages
4 Place identity or place identities
part |91 pages
Part II Destination management
chapter |14 pages
8 Soviet tourismin the Baltic states
chapter |14 pages
10 Commemorating and commodifying the Rwandan genocide
chapter |19 pages
12 Place identities in the Normandy landscape of war
part |96 pages
Part III Place interpretation