International Journal of Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research: Volume 7 Issue 3

New perspectives on dark tourism

Avital Biran, Kenneth F. Hyde

The purpose of this paper is to introduce the papers in this Special Issue of IJCTHR on dark tourism. These papers take either a demand‐side, supply‐side, or integrated…

Mark Twain and The Innocents Abroad: illuminating the tourist gaze on death

Tony Johnston

In 1867, the author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, undertook a great pleasure excursion across Europe. Visiting a range of sites, from those associated with…

Dark tourism and voyeurism: tourist arrested for “spying” in Iran

Dorina Maria Buda, Alison Jane McIntosh

The purpose of this paper is to propose voyeurism as one possible lens to analyse the experiential nature of dark tourism in places of socio‐political danger, thus expanding…

Pilgrims and patriots: Australian tourist experiences at Gallipoli

Felicity Cheal, Tony Griffin

The purpose of this paper is to explore the Australian tourist experience at Gallipoli in order to better understand how tourists approach and engage with battlefield sites and…

A dark tourist spectrum

Rachael Raine

The purpose of this paper is to develop a typology of dark tourists through an investigation of people's motivations to visit burial grounds. This research extends Stone's Dark…

Conflicts, battlefields, indigenous peoples and tourism: addressing dissonant heritage in warfare tourism in Australia and North America in the twenty‐first century

Raynald Harvey Lemelin, Kyle Powys Whyte, Kelsey Johansen, Freya Higgins Desbiolles, Christopher Wilson, Steve Hemming

The purpose of this paper is to examine the omission of Indigenous narratives in battlefields and sites of conflicts while also highlighting how certain battlefields and sites of…

Dark tourism shops: selling “dark” and “difficult” products

Jane Brown

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the position of the museum shop within dark tourism sites. In doing so, it argues that the shop has the potential to act as a further…

Dark tourism revisited: a supply/demand conceptualisation

Anna Farmaki

The purpose of this paper is to advance the conceptualisation of dark tourism by evaluating both the supply‐side drivers for dark tourism development and the demand‐side…

When death is the destination: the business of death tourism – despite legal and social implications

DeMond Shondell Miller, Christopher Gonzalez

This paper views the growing popularity of death tourism which directs the confrontation with grief and mortality with the expressed purpose of orchestrating travel that…

Dark tourism scholarship: a critical review

Philip Stone

Commonly referred to as dark tourism or thanatourism, the act of touristic travel to sites of or sites associated with death and disaster has gained significant attention with…