ABSTRACT
This chapter explores battlefield or remembrance tourism from the perspective of a more embodied and sensual way of knowing. Drawing on the findings of research into the visitor experience of the D-Day landscape of war in Normandy, France, they demonstrate how the lived experience of the relationship between death, the body and tourism is inextricably linked through the senses. What they refer to as the embodiment of remembrance is illustrated via four interrelated themes, attirement, movement, touch and sound. Through these themes, they argue that a more embodied approach to the role of the senses in tourism demonstrates how mind, body and landscape work together to connect person to place and past.
