Dark Tourism An Immoral Promotion of Death & Disaster?
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Dark Tourism An Immoral Promotion of Death & Disaster ? UNIV*1200 – Sections 1 and 2 – Winter 2016 Tourism that involves travelling to places associated with death and suffering Higher political Lower political influence & ideology influence & ideology Sites of death Sites associated with and suffering with death and suffering DARKEST DARKER DARK LIGHT LIGHTER LIGHTEST Education Entertainment Orientation Orientation Hitory centric Heritage (conservation/ (commercial/ commemorative) romanticism) Perceived authentic Perceived inauthentic product interpretation product interpretation Location Non-Location authenticity authenticity Shorter time-scale Longer time-scale from the event from the event Supply Supply (non-purposefulness) (purposefulness) Lower tourism Higher tourism infrastructure infrastructure Categorization of Dark Tourism Division Perilous Places Towns of horror Dangerous destination from the past and present Dangerous Situations House of Horror Building associated with death and horror, Dungeons of death either actual or represented Heinous hotels Fields of Fatality Bloody battlegrounds Areas/land commemorating death, fear, fame or The Hell of Holocaust infamy Cemeteries of Celebrities Tours of torment Mayhem and murder Tours/visits to attractons associated with death, The Now Notorious murder and mayhem Themed thanatos Morbid Museums Collections/museums themes around death and Monuments to Morality suffering (from Dann, 1998)
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Dark TourismAn Immoral Promotion of Death & Disaster?
UNIV*1200 – Sections 1 and 2 – Winter 2016
Tourism that involves travelling to places associated with death and suffering
Higher political Lower politicalinfluence & ideology influence & ideology
Sites of death Sites associated withand suffering with death and suffering
DARKEST DARKER DARK LIGHT LIGHTER LIGHTESTEducation EntertainmentOrientation Orientation
Hitory centric Heritage(conservation/ (commercial/
commemorative) romanticism)
Perceived authentic Perceived inauthenticproduct interpretation product interpretation
Location Non-Locationauthenticity authenticity
Shorter time-scale Longer time-scalefrom the event from the event
Supply Supply(non-purposefulness) (purposefulness)
Lower tourism Higher tourisminfrastructure infrastructure
Categorization of Dark TourismDivisionPerilous Places Towns of horrorDangerous destination from the past and present Dangerous Situations
House of HorrorBuilding associated with death and horror, Dungeons of deatheither actual or represented Heinous hotels
Fields of Fatality Bloody battlegroundsAreas/land commemorating death, fear, fame or The Hell of Holocaustinfamy Cemeteries of Celebrities
Tours of torment Mayhem and murderTours/visits to attractons associated with death, The Now Notoriousmurder and mayhem
Themed thanatos Morbid MuseumsCollections/museums themes around death and Monuments to Moralitysuffering
(from Dann, 1998)
