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What is Dark Tourism

Chapter 2
Special Interest Tourism in Southeast Asia: Emerging Research and Opportunities
It is a modern tendency where visitors travel to sites of mass destruction, death, or extended suffering.
Published in Chapter:
Dark Tourism in the Philippines Islands
Bintang Handayani (Independent Researcher, Indonesia), Hugues Seraphin (The University of Winchester, UK), and Maximiliano Korstanje (University of Palermo, Argentina)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7393-7.ch002
Abstract
Though the study of dark tourism has been widely expanded over the recent years, less attention was given to the Southeast Asian destinations. Dark tourism exhibits events that are marked a disgrace, the fatalities that interrogate on our own vulnerability. As a gaze of the Significant Other, dark tourism anthropologically mediates between our finitude and the future. The chapter centers on Philippines as a new emergent destination of dark tourism, stressing the contributions of the industry to the heritage sites but alerting the contradictions this new morbid consumption generates.
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Security, Dark Consumption, and the End of Tourism
It is an emergent form of tourism where visitors take appearance in spaces of mass-death and mourning.
Published in Chapter: Security, Dark Consumption, and the End of Tourism; From: Impact of Risk Perception Theory and Terrorism on Tourism Security: Emerging Research and Opportunities
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Dark Pilgrimage and Implications in Dissonant Heritage Consumption: A Short Introduction
This should be seen as a new emerging form of tourism marked by the visit to places of mass death, suffering or whipped by disasters.
Published in Chapter: Dark Pilgrimage and Implications in Dissonant Heritage Consumption: A Short Introduction; From: Prospects and Challenges of Global Pilgrimage Tourism and Hospitality
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Through the Gaze of Morbidity and Consumption: Comments on Dark Tourism in Southeast Asia
It refers to a new segment of tourists who visit spaces of mass death or destruction.
Published in Chapter: Through the Gaze of Morbidity and Consumption: Comments on Dark Tourism in Southeast Asia; From: Special Interest Tourism in Southeast Asia: Emerging Research and Opportunities
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Isle of the Dead: A Study of Trunyan Cemetery (Bali)
Signals to a new trend in touring and travels that select sites of mass disaster or death as chief tourist destination.
Published in Chapter: Isle of the Dead: A Study of Trunyan Cemetery (Bali); From: Handbook of Research on Technological Developments for Cultural Heritage and eTourism Applications
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Market Segmentation and Dark Tourism and the (Post) Pandemic Scenario
It is the phenomenon that includes the presence and consumption, by visitors, of places related to genocide, holocaust, murder, or crime, meaning that is directly related with death, suffer, catastrophes or morbid events and that serve as a tourist attraction or entertainment. These places had or have historical impact in society, which will remain for a long time in people’s mind.
Published in Chapter: Market Segmentation and Dark Tourism and the (Post) Pandemic Scenario; From: Handbook of Research on Green, Circular, and Digital Economies as Tools for Recovery and Sustainability
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Southeast Asia Tourism: Introductory Chapter
Macabre form of tourism that seeks to visit sites of mass death or destruction.
Published in Chapter: Southeast Asia Tourism: Introductory Chapter; From: Special Interest Tourism in Southeast Asia: Emerging Research and Opportunities
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Methodologies in Dark Tourism Issues: Modelling the Dark Experience
It is a type of new niche tourism that fosters the visit to spaces mainly marked by disasters or mass death.
Published in Chapter: Methodologies in Dark Tourism Issues: Modelling the Dark Experience; From: Exploring Niche Tourism Business Models, Marketing, and Consumer Experience
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Fifty Shades of Dark Stories
Special type of tourism, which involves visits to tourist attractions and destinations that are associated with death, suffering, disasters and tragedies venues.
Published in Chapter: Fifty Shades of Dark Stories; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
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From Religiosity to Traumascape: The Role of Death in Western Cultures
This is a subtype of tourism characterized by the consumption of death or the interests for visiting spaces of mass death and disasters.
Published in Chapter: From Religiosity to Traumascape: The Role of Death in Western Cultures; From: Handbook of Research on Socio-Economic Impacts of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage
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Battlefield Tourism
Dark tourism is a type of tourism that involves visiting places where significant but tragic historical and cultural events have occurred. It is popular for reasons such as understanding and remembering history, exploring cultural identity, and personal satisfaction.
Published in Chapter: Battlefield Tourism; From: Exploring Niche Tourism Business Models, Marketing, and Consumer Experience
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Evaluation of the Disaster Tourism Potential of Countries
The act of visiting destinations linked with tragedy, death, suffering, and destruction.
Published in Chapter: Evaluation of the Disaster Tourism Potential of Countries; From: Handbook of Research on Sustainable Tourism and Hotel Operations in Global Hypercompetition
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Serial Killer Tourism: Education and Entertainment!?
Travels related to death, disasters, morbid events and/or human suffering, where the motivation is curiosity towards the darkest parts of human history.
Published in Chapter: Serial Killer Tourism: Education and Entertainment!?; From: Exploring Niche Tourism Business Models, Marketing, and Consumer Experience
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Dark Tourism and Human Rights: A Philosophical Quandary?
Is an emerging nice of tourism which consists in the visit to spaces of mass death or suffering.
Published in Chapter: Dark Tourism and Human Rights: A Philosophical Quandary?; From: Global Perspectives on Human Rights and the Impact of Tourism Consumption in the 21st Century
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Dark Tourism: A Novel Trending Sector in Tourism – A Study in the Indian Subcontinent
Dark Tourism, also known as Grief Tourism or Thanatourism, refers to the act of travelling to places associated with death, tragedy, or suffering. This could include visiting historical sites related to mass genocide or tragedy, such as the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, or more recent events, such as the 9/11 Memorial in New York City. The term “dark” does not necessarily refer to a moral judgment, but rather the morbid or macabre nature of the subject matter. Dark tourism is a growing industry, with many people seeking out experiences that offer a glimpse into the darker side of human history and tragedy.
Published in Chapter: Dark Tourism: A Novel Trending Sector in Tourism – A Study in the Indian Subcontinent; From: Exploring Niche Tourism Business Models, Marketing, and Consumer Experience
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From Nuclear Disaster to Film Tourism: The Impact of the Chernobyl Mini-Series on the Exclusion Zone
All travel related to death, disasters or gruesome events, visiting places associated with natural disasters, tragedies, battles, where the focus is on satisfying individual curiosity.
Published in Chapter: From Nuclear Disaster to Film Tourism: The Impact of the Chernobyl Mini-Series on the Exclusion Zone; From: Global Perspectives on Literary Tourism and Film-Induced Tourism
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