A V Seaton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1656440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A V Seaton |
| GIVEN NAMES | A V |
| FAMILY NAME | Seaton |
| SIGNATURE | SEATON A V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 175 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Slavery, Contested Heritage, and Thanatourism
Tourism as metempsychosis and metensomatosis
Thanatourism's Final Frontiers? Visits to Cemeteries, Churchyards and Funerary Sites as Sacred and Secular Pilgrimage
This paper examines the historical and contemporary status of cemeteries, churchyards and other funerary sites, and their textual characteristics, as pilgrimage goals. The first part of the paper traces their historical evolution as pilgrimage goals internationally, their discursive features, and the activities associated with visiting them. The second part examines the contemporary tourism functions they may serve for destination planners
Slavery, Contested Heritage and Thanatourism
This article introduces a collection of eight revised papers that focus on the connection between slavery and tourism. After tracing the history of the former from its origins to the present day, and after providing some examples of related attractions, it confronts a number of dilemmas associated with their juxtaposition. A brief overview of the contributions to the volume is supplied, along with some epistemological and methodological concerns …
“Another Weekend Away Looking for Dead Bodies…”
This article reports a phenomenological investigation into the perspectives and experiences of battlefield tourists visiting the landscapes of the Western Front, the setting of trench warfare in the Great War of 1914–1918. Based on a small scale, participant observational methodology the study provides insights into the appeals of the First World War landscapes to visitors in the 1990s, suggests how these appeals may differ in quality and intensi…
War and thanatourism
Imagining Scotland
The status of the visiting friends and relatives category in recent tourism analysis
This paper provides an overview of the visiting friends and relatives category in international tourism researchover the last decade. It was delivered as a keynote paper at the international conference, “VFR Tourism: Issues and implications” held at the Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, in October 1996
Understanding VFR tourism behaviour
Blowing the whistle on tourism referees
Hay on Wye, the mouse that roared
Guided by the dark
Death is the one heritage that everyone shares and it has been an element of tourism longer than any other form of heritage. This paper looks at the historical development of Thanatoptic elements in travel and shows how the Dark Tourism to which this issue is devoted can be located within a historical tradition which sheds light on how it should be defined, typified and viewed today Key Words: DeathThanatopsisTourismDe Quincey
Tourism the State of the Art
Tourism. The State of the Art
Fashionable resort regions
Perche le personé vanno in vacanza
Case Histories Nell'industria Dell'ospitalita
Computer networking and the public sector tourism organisation
Sociologica del turismo
Communicazione e technica pubblicitaria nel turismo
Economia e management delle imprese alberghiere
Marketing turistico
Social stratification in tourism choice and experience since the war
Tourism education in Europe
Guided by the dark
Death is the one heritage that everyone shares and it has been an element of tourism longer than any other form of heritage. This paper looks at the historical development of Thanatoptic elements in travel and shows how the Dark Tourism to which this issue is devoted can be located within a historical tradition which sheds light on how it should be defined, typified and viewed today Key Words: DeathThanatopsisTourismDe Quincey
War and thanatourism
Understanding VFR tourism behaviour
Thanatourism's Final Frontiers? Visits to Cemeteries, Churchyards and Funerary Sites as Sacred and Secular Pilgrimage
This paper examines the historical and contemporary status of cemeteries, churchyards and other funerary sites, and their textual characteristics, as pilgrimage goals. The first part of the paper traces their historical evolution as pilgrimage goals internationally, their discursive features, and the activities associated with visiting them. The second part examines the contemporary tourism functions they may serve for destination planners
Social stratification in tourism choice and experience since the war
Hay on Wye, the mouse that roared
Blowing the whistle on tourism referees
Tourism education in Europe
Social stratification in tourism choice and experience since the war
Tourism education in Europe
Perche le personé vanno in vacanza
Case Histories Nell'industria Dell'ospitalita
Computer networking and the public sector tourism organisation
Sociologica del turismo
Communicazione e technica pubblicitaria nel turismo
Economia e management delle imprese alberghiere
Marketing turistico
Fashionable resort regions
Tourism. The State of the Art
Blowing the whistle on tourism referees
Hay on Wye, the mouse that roared
Guided by the dark
Death is the one heritage that everyone shares and it has been an element of tourism longer than any other form of heritage. This paper looks at the historical development of Thanatoptic elements in travel and shows how the Dark Tourism to which this issue is devoted can be located within a historical tradition which sheds light on how it should be defined, typified and viewed today Key Words: DeathThanatopsisTourismDe Quincey
Tourism the State of the Art
The status of the visiting friends and relatives category in recent tourism analysis
This paper provides an overview of the visiting friends and relatives category in international tourism researchover the last decade. It was delivered as a keynote paper at the international conference, “VFR Tourism: Issues and implications” held at the Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, in October 1996
Understanding VFR tourism behaviour
Imagining Scotland
War and thanatourism
“Another Weekend Away Looking for Dead Bodies…”
This article reports a phenomenological investigation into the perspectives and experiences of battlefield tourists visiting the landscapes of the Western Front, the setting of trench warfare in the Great War of 1914–1918. Based on a small scale, participant observational methodology the study provides insights into the appeals of the First World War landscapes to visitors in the 1990s, suggests how these appeals may differ in quality and intensi…
Slavery, Contested Heritage and Thanatourism
This article introduces a collection of eight revised papers that focus on the connection between slavery and tourism. After tracing the history of the former from its origins to the present day, and after providing some examples of related attractions, it confronts a number of dilemmas associated with their juxtaposition. A brief overview of the contributions to the volume is supplied, along with some epistemological and methodological concerns …
Tourism as metempsychosis and metensomatosis
Thanatourism's Final Frontiers? Visits to Cemeteries, Churchyards and Funerary Sites as Sacred and Secular Pilgrimage
This paper examines the historical and contemporary status of cemeteries, churchyards and other funerary sites, and their textual characteristics, as pilgrimage goals. The first part of the paper traces their historical evolution as pilgrimage goals internationally, their discursive features, and the activities associated with visiting them. The second part examines the contemporary tourism functions they may serve for destination planners
Slavery, Contested Heritage, and Thanatourism
Tourism (17 works) · Geography (15 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · History (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Humanities (6 works)