Dear Philip and All,
Here's a Halloween adventure that might be of interest to your group.
What interests me about this advertisement is the increasing popularity
of "fully interactive" experiences when it comes to creating memorable
(and commercially successful) tourist/visitor events. Old-fashioned
goblins and witches apparently aren't good enough anymore; today's
consumers ostensibly seek to "interact" with their neuroses and
psychoses in more direct ways.
I wonder if this growing interest in (or commodification of) "full
interaction" has implications for other forms of dark tourism,
including more serious sites of commemoration such as the ones we
recently discussed?? Will the new focus on virtual means of
interactivity change how people expect to engage with the traumatic
past?
http://www.joonbug.com/emails/dedicated/nyc/2005/Nightmare.html
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