Media coverage of this concept is anything but huge at this point in time,
however. While Google has 20,100 hits on this phrase at this moment
(Google web search results go up and down at rates that would make stock
market analysts dizzy), Google News shows only two hits on this subject.
Studying the Academic Side of Halloween
By GARY SHAPIRO
Staff Reporter of the Sun
November 1, 2006
The New York Sun
<http://www.nysun.com/article/42700>
The Times October 21, 2006
The world this week: Cindy Crawford visits Madrid
By Will Hide
Times Online
<http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,10295-2412200,00.html>
Google News Archive lists, however, 52 hits for this phrase including this
sample of the first ten.
<http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22dark+
tourism%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=Search+Archives>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/yg83so>
Wanna embark on 'dark' tourism?
Economic Times - May 28, 2005
NEW DELHI: For most Americans the Ground Zero is a constant reminder of
the fateful day of terror attack on the World Trade Centre, but for
millions of ...
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'Dark'tourism, the new wanderlust
Times of India - May 27, 2005
NEW DELHI: For most Americans the Ground Zero is a constant reminder of
the fateful day of terror attack on the World Trade Centre, but for
millions of ...
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Guardian Unlimited Travel | Special reports | Tomb raiders
Guardian Unlimited - Oct 26, 2005
Forget it - dark tourism is the new way to enjoy yourself. David Atkinson
rounds up five of the world's most popular graveyard destinations San
Vicente ...
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Seminar on dark tourism.(tourism sector,improvements)(Brief Article)
$6.95 - Travel Trade Gazette UK & Ireland - AccessMyLibrary.com - Aug 13,
2004
But there is a growing demand for what is termed "dark tourism" - and it
is a ... The Tourism Society is holding a seminar, Dark Tourism: Where do
you draw ...
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Visitors, see Brum and Di! TOURISM: Royal coffin factory a ...
Subscription - Birmingham Mail - HighBeam Research - Jan 13, 2006
"Dark tourism is the coming thing," predicted trust chairman Coun Peter
Douglas Osborn. "The potential is immense and there is an enormous public
appetite." ...
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Dark tourism clouds have silver lining
$9.95 - Nikkei Weekly - Alacra Store - May 17, 1999
Dark tourism clouds have silver lining. Japan's domestic travel industry
is being squeezed as consumers spend less money on travel. However, the
industry is ...
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Dark tourism is a sickening disgrace
Pay-Per-View - Travel Weekly - LexisNexis - Feb 24, 2006
I read with interest Matthew Hampton&apos;s article on dark tourism.
... Selling and promoting dark tourism is rubbernecking a disaster and
it&apos ...
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Dark tourism and the celebrity prisoner: front and back regions in ...
Subscription - Journal of Australian Studies - HighBeam Research - Jun 1,
2004
Dark tourism and the celebrity prisoner: front and back regions in
representations of an Australian historical prison. ...
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Walk on the dark side
Hindu - Feb 5, 2006
Ria, who is researching the subject, believes dark tourism is equally
popular ... The book Dark Tourism: The Attraction of Death and Disaster
co-authored by ...
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ITT to tackle `dark' tourism.
$9.95 - Travel Trade Gazette UK & Ireland - Goliath - Feb 4, 2005
THE Institute of Travel and Tourism will address the controversial subject
of "dark" tourism and the attraction of death and disaster for the first
time at ...
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It also should be noted that journal citations, magazine articles, and
news stories refering to dark tourism are amongst the results found in the
Google web search.
Journeys into understanding | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited ...What
is dark tourism? We should use sites of tragedy to educate not exploit ...
Dark tourism - the tourism of sites of tragedy - may be a recent growth
area ...
travel.guardian.co.uk/darktourism/story/0,,1599599,00.html - 41k - Cached
- Similar pages
Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Death, gambling and the pink pound ...Niche
markets such as dark tourism - interest in graveyards, gruesome ghost
tours and battlefields - are to be targeted in an effort to...
news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=994222004
e-Review of Tourism ResearchHowever, dark tourism literature is both
eclectic and theoretically fragile. ... Thus it is suggested that the
dimensions of dark tourism consumption have ...
ertr.tamu.edu/appliedresearch.cfm?articleid=90 - 26k - Cached - Similar
pages
The Hindu : Magazine / Travel : Walk on the dark sideRia, who is
researching the subject, believes dark tourism is equally popular ... The
book Dark Tourism: The Attraction of Death and Disaster co-authored by ...
www.thehindu.com/mag/2006/02/05/stories/2006020500570800.htm - 26k -
A collection of databases provided by EBSCO's database searching service
covering a broad range of subject disciplines provides 65 hits for this
subject discipline including these citations.
A Tourist in 'Ir ha-Haregah (A Tourist in the City of Slaughter)--Kishinev
1903.
Ben-Amos, Batsheva.
Jewish Quarterly Review,
Summer 2006 v. 96 no. 3 p. 359-384
Most of these citations come, however, from the tourism and hospitality
journals and are probably found in the CAB and in the Hospitality and
Tourism databases, the later of which is an exclusive database to EBSCO.
For a substantial number of institutions, the search protocols for
searching in EBSCO have drastically improved this year as is detailed in
this Net-Gold post.
DATABASES: DATABANKS AND SEARCH SERVICE PROVIDERS :
DATABASE: SEARCHING TECHNIQUES: EBSCO:
Customer Service Past and Present and Learning Better
Ways to Use EBSCO
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As far as I know, the find line searching interface described in the post
cited above is the universal interface for using EBSCO now as of about the
time this message was posted on Saturday March 11, 2006.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, [windows-1252] Chris Hughes wrote:
> It is interesting to observe the growing awareness of dark tourism in the
> conventional media. For example, the current (ie. November) issue of
> British Airways’ irredeemably glitzy in-flight magazine has a wee in-
> flight tutorial on what dark tourism is. Last Wednesday’s New York Sun
> newspaper gave it a mention too - as part of its coverage on the Halloween
> conference held at GCU.
>
> Meanwhile, hidden europe magazine (http://www.hiddeneurope.co.uk) has, in
> its November issue, an interesting essay which looks at swastikas in urban
> and rural locations around Europe. It is an interesting example
> of ‘lighter’ dark tourism, highlighting locations where swastikas feature
> on buildings – often without being associated with any darker political
> intentions. For example at the Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen or on the
> floor of Amiens cathedral. But also some useful observations on ‘hidden’
> swastikas – on a frozen lake in winter, in a German forest and in newly
> laid cobbles on a German town square. The piece was previewed last month
> in the magazine’s free e-news, which made mention of a swastika on a
> building at Selwyn College in Cambridge. That short preview can be found
> in the magazine’s e-news archive at
> http://www.hiddeneurope.co.uk/barticles.php?tPath=1. Click on issue
> 2006/27.
> CH
>
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