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Dark tourism

In: The Long Tail of Tourism

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  • Söndra Brand
  • Nina Platter

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Guided bus tours giving tourists the eligibility to enter and take photos of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, wandering around the radioactive fields of Chernobyl, visiting the concentration camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau and travelling to prisons such as Alcatraz Island (Freire-Medeiros, 2008, p. 3), all exemplify the phenomenon of dark tourism. Stone defines dark tourism as “the act of travel and visitation to sites, attractions and exhibitions which has real or recreated death, suffering or the seemingly macabre as a main theme” (2008).

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  • Söndra Brand & Nina Platter, 2011. "Dark tourism," Springer Books, in: Alexis Papathanassis (ed.), The Long Tail of Tourism, chapter 2, pages 7-15, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-8349-6231-7_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-8349-6231-7_2
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