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This book explores the multifaceted world of dark tourism and delves into the evolving perceptions and complex narratives surrounding tourism at sites of tragedy and historical significance. The chapters in this book were originally published in
Tourism Recreation Research.
List of contents
Preface
PART I 1. Have we illuminated the dark? Shifting perspectives on 'dark' tourism
2. Staging fear: exploring how a dark fun factory is co-performed
3. Tourists' preferences for attributes and services in battlefield dark tourism itineraries
4. Demystifying destination attachment, self-congruity and revisiting intention in dark tourism destinations through the gender-based lens
5. Bone chapels: who might be interested in visiting and why?
6. Ambiguity and dilution in Kazakhstan's Gulag heritage
PART II 7. Understanding the depersonalisation process in post-disaster sites
8. The photograph: tourist responses to a visual interpretation of a disaster
9. Tragedy and heritage: the Case of Cambodia
10. Tsunami and flash-floods: contrasting modes of tourism-related disasters in Thailand
11. Will tourists travel to post-disaster destinations? A case of 2019 Australian bushfires from a Chinese tourists' perspective
12. "Another weekend away looking for dead bodies...": battlefield tourism on the Somme and in Flanders
PART III 13. Tourism to the memorial site and museum of the former concentration camp
14. A tale of two camps: contrasting approaches to interpretation and commemoration in the sites at Terezin and Lety, Czech Republic.
15. Medical volunteers as accidental tourists: humanitarianism and the European refugee crisis.
16. Thanatourism's final frontiers? Visits to cemeteries, churchyards and funerary sites as sacred and secular pilgrimage
About the author
Tzung- Cheng (TC) Huan is Professor at National Chiayi University and former President of Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan. He is also the Editor- in- Chief of
Tourism Recreation Research and a member of the UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organization) Panel of Tourism Experts. He has been honored by the 2011- 2012 Outstanding Reviewer Award from
Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, the 2013, 2017, and 2018 Emerald Literati Awards, and the 2018 Publons Peer Review Award.
