Motivation Factors in Dark Tourism Case: House of Terror LAHTI UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES The Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Degree Programme in Tourism and Hospitality Management Nature and Soft Adventure Tourism Bachelor’s thesis Spring 2010 Titta Niemelä Lahti University of Applied Sciences Degree Programme in Tourism and Hospitality Management NIEMELÄ‚ TITTA: Motivation Factors in Dark Tourism: Case: House of Terror Bachelor’s Thesis in Nature and Soft Adventure Tourism
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Do the Benefits of Dark Tourism Outweigh the Morbidity Maameegate Zheng Jun Cheston Tay Kai Ren ENG114 – Section 1006 University of Nevada‚ Las Vegas / Singapore Campus Do the Benefits of Dark Tourism Outweigh the Morbidity Introduction Dark tourism encourages people to reflect on mortality‚ bringing them closer to death (Stone‚ 2010). It is a multitude of history‚ heritage‚ tourism and tragedy which plays an important role in delivering information by bringing the past to present (Niemelä
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A critical investigation into the interests and attitudes that young adults have towards dark attractions. Alexandra Constantinescu Albert Robert Gordon University 4/18/2014 THE ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT Aberdeen Business School Department of Communication‚ Marketing and Media A critical investigation into the interests and attitudes that young adults have towards dark attractions. by Alexandra Constantinescu Albert (1002430) Word count: 13‚109 A research
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Response: Intimations of Dark Tourism The study of dark tourism by Foley and Lennon displays a significant amount of research and examples. In pointing out the vast number of dark tourist sites‚ worldwide‚ the two authors validate the importance of dark tourism in anthropology. The manner in which a human views death depends completely on the way in which he or she was socialized from the time he or she was born. Although opinions‚ representations‚ and the ways in which humans cope with
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Dark tourism scholarship: a critical review Philip Stone Philip Stone is Executive Director: Institute for Dark Tourism Research (iDTR)‚ School of Sport‚ Tourism and The Outdoors‚ University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)‚ Preston‚ UK. Abstract Purpose – 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 media imaginations and academic scholarship. However‚ despite
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Objectives The aim of the report is to study dark tourism and discuss what are the issues generated by the evolution of this phenomenon. 1.2 Scope The report includes a definition of dark tourism‚ the history‚ a description of its target markets with its marketing implications‚ the push and pull factors and the various impacts caused and the challenges faced. Lastly‚ conclusions will be drawn. 2.0 Main Discussions 2.1 Definition Dark tourism is demarcated as encompassing the visitation
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Dark Tourism Dark tourism is the act of travel and visitation to sites‚ attractions and exhibitions that have real or recreated death‚ suffering or the seemingly macabre as a main theme. Tourist visits to former battlefields‚ slavery-heritage attractions‚ prisons‚ cemeteries‚ particular museum exhibitions‚ Holocaust sites‚ or to disaster locations all constitute the broad realm of ‘dark tourism’. The Institute of Dark Tourism Research (iDTR) at the University of Lancashire in England in 2012 marks
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the motivating reasons and the appeal factors why people choose their tourist destination. The report will start with definitions of tourism and motivation‚ followed buy a few theories of motivation‚ and ending with a conclusion. Theses theories are relating to the push of individual/s to embark on a holiday‚ and the pull of the tourist destination. Definitions • According to the UK Tourism Society and cited in the BTEC National Travel and Tourism book‚ by Elise James‚ Joanne Thirlaway
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This project will contribute to the current literature on Ghost Tourism by unveiling the typical demographics and motives for ghost tourists that visit the Tranquille tunnels in Kamloops‚ BC. The analysis of this data may help provide a working foundation of knowledge for ghost tourism marketers and promoters. To collect data‚ tourists visiting the Tranquille tunnels will be surveyed following their Tranquille Farm Fresh tunnel tour. Through the collection and analysis of this data‚ a further understanding
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Thanatourism site. Introduction Thanatourism otherwise known as Dark tourism has found its place in the tourism sector. Though it has emerged as an academic field of study and particularly standing as a growing niche tourism product‚ there has been absence of realistic research (Seaton‚ 2012)‚ clearness and agreement about definition and purpose of it‚ (Dunkley‚ Morgan and Westwood‚ 2011). Nevertheless‚ Stone‚ P (2012) defines dark tourism as social filter between life and death and a mediating institution
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