Volume 12 Issue 1/2 August 2015 Applied Research Notes 3

Maximiliano E Korstanje
University of Palermo, Argentina

Babu George
University of Las Vegas, Nevada US

 


DARK TOURISM: REVISITING SOME PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES


The concept of dark tourism has been widely explored by tourism scholars because of two main reasons. First, it signals a new practice that takes death as the main attraction. Second, dark tourism may be useful to revitalize and reconstruct destinations in post disaster contexts. This essay discusses to what extent medieval pilgrimage and dark tourism practices may be likened

Keywords: : Dark Tourism, Thanaptosis, Tourism, Modernity.

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