1st Edition
Dark Tourism Practice and interpretation
Introduction
(Glenn Hooper)
1. Is All Tourism Dark?
(John E. Tunbridge & Gregory J. Ashworth)
2. The Long Shadow: Marketing Dachau
(John Lennon & Dorothy Weber)
3. Prison Tourism: Exploring the spectacle of punishment in the UK
(Sarah Hodgkinson & Diane Urquhart)
4. Patrimony, engineered remembrance and ancestral vampires: Appraising thanatouristic resources in Ireland and Sicily
(Tony Seaton)
5. Death Camp Tourism: Interpretation and Management
(Gregory J. Ashworth & John E. Tunbridge)
6. Guilty Landscapes and the selective reconstruction of the Past: Dedham Vale and the Murder in the Red Barn
(Martin Spaul & Chris Wilbert)
7. A Culturally Constructed Darkness: Dark Legacies and Dark Heritage in the Channel Islands
(Gilly Carr)
8. A Light in Dark Places? Analysing the Impact of Dark Tourism Experiences on Everyday Life
(Ria Dunkley)
9. The Undead and Dark Tourism: Dracula Tourism in Romania
(Duncan Light)
10. Genocide tourism in Rwanda: contesting the concept of the ‘Dark Tourist’
(Richard Sharpley & Mona Friedrich)
11. Everyday Darkness and Catastrophic Events: Riding Nepal’s Buses through Peace, War and an Earthquake
(Sharon Hepburn)
12. From Living Memory to Social History: Commemoration and Interpretation of a Contemporary Dark Event
(Elspeth Frew)
13. Experiencing dark heritage live
(Britta Timm Knudsen)
14. Dark Tourism in the Brightest of Cities: Rio de Janeiro and the Favela Tour
(Glenn Hooper)
Select Bibliography
Biography
Glenn Hooper is a Lecturer in Tourism and Heritage at Glasgow Caledonian University, and has held academic appointments at St. Mary’s University College Belfast, the University of Aberdeen and the Open University. He has published widely in travel and tourism, and is the co-founder of the international ‘Borders & Crossings’ Conference Series. His publications include Land and Landscape, 1770–2000, Irish and Postcolonial Writing (with Colin Graham) and Travel Writing and Ireland, 1760–1860.
John J. Lennon is the Vice Dean for the Glasgow School for Business and Society, Glasgow Caledonian University and Director of the Moffat Centre for Travel and Tourism Business Development. John has undertaken over 550 tourism and travel projects, in over 40 nations, on behalf of private sector and public sector clients. John is the co-author of Dark Tourism: The Attraction of Death and Disaster and a range of publications relating to the subject based on international research in the area.
