The Darker Side of Travel: The Theory and Practice of Dark TourismRichard Sharpley, Philip R. Stone Over the last decade, the concept of dark tourism has attracted growing academic interest and media attention. Nevertheless, perspectives on and understanding of dark tourism remain varied and theoretically fragile whilst, to date, no single book has attempted to draw together the conceptual themes and debates surrounding dark tourism, to explore it within wider disciplinary contexts and to establish a more informed relationship between the theory and practice of dark tourism. This book meets the undoubted need for such a volume by providing a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of dark tourism. |
Contents
| 23 | |
Mediating Between the Dead and the Living | 39 |
Morality and New Moral Spaces | 56 |
Dark Tourism Management Implications | 73 |
An Ethical Dimension | 129 |
Towards | 145 |
Dark Tourism in Practice | 165 |
Genocide Tourism | 207 |
Museums Memorials and Plantation Houses in the Black | 224 |
and Concluding Comments | 247 |
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