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Author:   Glenn Hooper ,  John J. Lennon
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9780367368784

ISBN 10:   0367368781
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   17 July 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Is All Tourism Dark? 2. The Long Shadow: Marketing Dachau 3. Prison Tourism: Exploring the spectacle of punishment in the UK 4. Patrimony, engineered remembrance and ancestral vampires: Appraising thanatouristic resources in Ireland and Sicily 5. Death Camp Tourism: Interpretation and Management 6. Guilty Landscapes and the selective reconstruction of the Past: Dedham Vale and the Murder in the Red Barn 7. A Culturally Constructed Darkness: Dark Legacies and Dark Heritage in the Channel Islands 8. A Light in Dark Places? Analysing the Impact of Dark Tourism Experiences on Everyday Life 9. The Undead and Dark Tourism: Dracula Tourism in Romania 10. Genocide tourism in Rwanda: contesting the concept of the ‘Dark Tourist’ 11. Everyday Darkness and Catastrophic Events: Riding Nepal’s Buses through Peace, War and an Earthquake 12. From Living Memory to Social History: Commemoration and Interpretation of a Contemporary Dark Event 13. Experiencing dark heritage live 14. Dark Tourism in the Brightest of Cities: Rio de Janeiro and the Favela Tour Select Bibliography

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Glenn Hooper is a Lecturer in Tourism and Heritage at Glasgow Caledonian University, and has held academic appointments at St. Mary’s University College Belfast, the University of Aberdeen and the Open University. He has published widely in travel and tourism, and is the co-founder of the international ‘Borders & Crossings’ Conference Series. His publications include Land and Landscape, 1770–2000, Irish and Postcolonial Writing (with Colin Graham) and Travel Writing and Ireland, 1760–1860. John J. Lennon is the Vice Dean for the Glasgow School for Business and Society, Glasgow Caledonian University and Director of the Moffat Centre for Travel and Tourism Business Development. John has undertaken over 550 tourism and travel projects, in over 40 nations, on behalf of private sector and public sector clients. John is the co-author of Dark Tourism: The Attraction of Death and Disaster and a range of publications relating to the subject based on international research in the area.

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