Dark Tourism

This book explores the multifaceted world of dark tourism and delves into the evolving perceptions and complex narratives surrounding tourism at sites of tragedy and historical significance.

Divided into three insightful parts, the text explores key aspects of dark tourism. Part I explores changing attitudes toward dark tourism, examining how tourist preferences and gender perspectives influence experiences at sites related to death, disaster, and heritage. Part II investigates how disasters influence tourism, exploring case studies from Cambodia, Thailand, and recent bushfires in Australia, and the impact on tourist behavior and site representation. The third section focuses on how memorials and heritage sites are managed and interpreted, with case studies from concentration camps to cemeteries, shedding light on the ethics of visitation and memory preservation.

Dark Tourism: Perspectives, Post-Disaster Contexts, and Memorial Sites is an essential read for students and scholars of tourism studies as well as for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of dark tourism.

The chapters in this book were originally published in Tourism Recreation Research.