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What is Disaster Tourism

Chapter 19
Handbook of Research on Sustainable Tourism and Hotel Operations in Global Hypercompetition
The act of visiting disaster-affected or disaster-related places.
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Evaluation of the Disaster Tourism Potential of Countries
Zekiye Göktekin (Faculty of Health Sciences, Gümüşhane University, Turkey) and Ahmet Bahadır Şimşek (Faculty of Health Sciences, Gümüşhane University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4645-4.ch019
Abstract
Disasters are tragic events that cause losses. The curiosity of people to feel sadness and pain motivates disaster tourism. Each disaster region has the potential for disaster tourism, which offers various benefits. This chapter covers the evaluation of the disaster tourism potential of countries with the fuzzy-TOPSIS method. The criteria affecting the disaster tourism potential as the number of dead, injured, affected, and homeless people were weighted according to the evaluations of the decision-makers. Disasters that occurred worldwide between 1980-2022 were analyzed with the criteria weights based on the countries where they occurred. Decision-makers mostly evaluated the number of deaths and homeless as more effective in affecting the desire to visit a disaster area and the attractiveness of the region. Among 90 countries, it has been determined that Sri Lanka and the Russian Federation are the two countries with the highest disaster tourism potential as to the number of losses/disasters, while Ethiopia is the country with the lowest disaster tourism potential.
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Chapter 2
Security, Dark Consumption, and the End of Tourism
It is a new form of consumption where visitors are interested in gazing post-disaster spaces.
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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From Nuclear Disaster to Film Tourism: The Impact of the Chernobyl Mini-Series on the Exclusion Zone
A common point that emerges from the definition of dark tourism and disaster tourism is that potential destinations are places with a large number of deaths and/or tragedies resulting in severe natural disasters. The difference between the two concepts lies in their impact. Whereas dark tourism has no immediate impact, disaster tourism has an impact on people in the present day and age, even decades later.
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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