1st Edition
Dark Tourism Perspectives, Post-Disaster Contexts, and Memorial Sites
Preface
Tzung-Cheng (TC) Huan
Part I: Perspectives on dark tourism
1. Have we illuminated the dark? Shifting perspectives on ‘dark’ tourism
Gregory J. Ashworth and Rami K. Isaac
2. Staging fear: exploring how a dark fun factory is co-performed
Yunzhen Zhang, Animesh Tripathi, Rajesh Nautiyal and Ismail Shaheer
3. Tourists’ preferences for attributes and services in battlefield dark tourism itineraries
Li-Hui Chang
4. Demystifying destination attachment, self-congruity and revisiting intention in dark tourism destinations through the gender-based lens
Ibrahim Cifci, Raouf Ahmad Rather, Oguz Taspinar and Gizem Kandemir Altunel
5. Bone chapels: who might be interested in visiting and why?
Maria Amélia Machado Carvalho
6. Ambiguity and dilution in Kazakhstan’s Gulag heritage
J. John Lennon and Guillaume Tiberghien
Part II: Dark tourism in post-disaster contexts
7. Understanding the depersonalisation process in post-disaster sites
Yachen Zhang, Alexandra Coghlan and Kathy Knox
8. The photograph: tourist responses to a visual interpretation of a disaster
Daniel Wright and Richard Sharpley
9. Tragedy and heritage: the case of Cambodia
J. John Lennon
10. Tsunami and flash-floods: contrasting modes of tourism-related disasters in Thailand
Erik Cohen
11. Will tourists travel to post-disaster destinations? A case of 2019 Australian bushfires from a Chinese tourists’ perspective
Jun Wen, Tianyu Ying, Diep Nguyen and Stephen Teo
12. “Another weekend away looking for dead bodies…”: battlefield tourism on the Somme and in Flanders
A.V. Seaton
Part III: Memorial and heritage sites of dark tourism
13. Tourism to the memorial site and museum of the former concentration camp
Rudi Hartmann
14. A tale of two camps: contrasting approaches to interpretation and commemoration in the sites at Terezin and Lety, Czech Republic.
J. John Lennon and Hugh Smith
15. Medical volunteers as accidental tourists: humanitarianism and the European refugee crisis.
Pavlos Paraskevaidis and Konstantinos Andriotis
16. Thanatourism’s final frontiers? Visits to cemeteries, churchyards and funerary sites as sacred and secular pilgrimage
A.V. Seaton
Biography
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.
