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Dark tourism can help shine a commemorative light on the pandemic that has gripped society.
A series of films made between 1927 and 1952 shone a light on the convict ruins of Port Arthur and helped develop dark tourism in Australia.
It isn’t always good advice for tourists to stay away. Often their money can help, as well as their skills.
Performances of prison life are commonplace nowadays in gulag museums. Visitors can vividly imagine it all – the tears, pain and despair.
What does it mean to hold a party in a place with a long history of death and suffering?
For Africans and diasporans, learning about their heritage is important. But it remains to be seen how this will translate into a sustained continental and diasporan engagement.
The 2019 season has been one of Mount Everest’s deadliest for climbers.
The HBO series ‘Chernobyl’ has reignited interest among tourists to visit Pripyat, but growing up in the disaster’s shadow has made us wary.
You might think it morbid, but people have many reasons for visiting the sites of battles and disasters.
A new Netflix series focusing on tourism to sites of historic disasters or atrocities delivers no more than a contemporary version of a freak show.
The blockade of the Kokoda Track by local landowners is a product of the complex political and economic issues currently affecting Papua New Guinea.
Why is it acceptable to leer at photos of murdered women in the name of entertainment?
The former prison, Spike Island, is now one of the world’s top ‘dark tourism’ destinations.
Northern Ireland has a tourist circuit steeped in death and disaster – is this a good thing?
In recent years, the number of people traveling to sites of death, natural disaster, acts of violence, tragedy and crimes against humanity has dramatically increased. Is it immoral?
There is no evidence to support the marketing of an ancient boab in Western Australia as a tree that once held Aboriginal prisoners. The story is a myth that elides the tree’s deep significance to Indigenous people.
Victorians revelled in images and descriptions of murder and mutilation which would today be regarded as shocking.
Disaster tourism and obsessions with sites of death and destruction can be a learning experience, not just voyeurism.
The 20th anniversary of the massacre at Port Arthur again raises pressing questions about ways of remembering the tragedy.
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Professor of Marketing and Tourism, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer, Tourism, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Teaching Associate, Monash University
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Assistant Vice-Principal and Director of the Moffat Centre for Travel and Tourism Business Development, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of History, The Open University
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Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of South Australia
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PhD candidate, The Open University
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Reader in Law, School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Belfast
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Affiliate Associate Professor of History, University of Sydney
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Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor in History, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Psychology, College of the Holy Cross
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Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
