Dark Tourism and Disaster Tourism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22367672 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin Fox Gotham (0000-0003-2571-0300, Tulane University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-2 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosd045.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W2947574740 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Dark tourism is the circulation of people to places characterized by distress, atrocity, or sadness and pain. As a more specific component of dark tourism, “disaster tourism” denotes situations where the tourism product is generated within, and from, the aftermath of a major disaster or traumatic event. Examples of dark tourism include guided tours to Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone in the Ukraine, to holocaust concentration camps in Europe, to war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to battlefield sites. Sites of disaster tourism are places such as the World Trade Center in New York City and flooded neighborhoods in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. These and other examples display the widespread diversity of dark‐related and disaster‐related attractions (Faulkner, 2013). Researchers have uncovered a variety of perceptions and experiences related to disaster tourism and disaster tourism sites, and resident attitudes vary considerably, depending on the length of their immersion into the area
Archaeology · Dark tourism · Geography · Sadness · Terrorism · Tourism · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |