As Doctoral student at the Universoty of Florida I can see
interest in dark tourism growing. In a class of 15 where students
could select any tourism topic to write on four choose dark
tourism .
Dan Sargeant
On Tue Nov 07 09:03:59 EST 2006, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Chris_Hughes?=
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> On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 05:24:18 -0500, David P. Dillard
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Media coverage of this concept is anything but huge at this
>> point in time,
>> however.
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> REPLY:
> I did not mean to imply, David, that media coverage on dark
> tourism issues was huge, but merely that it was growing. Although
> your google search obviously dug up last Wednesday's New York Sun
> article, which I mentioned, google rarely picks up on magazine
> articles. Here the current issue of the BA Inflight Magazine,
> High Life, is a case in point. That dark tourism gets more than
> just a mention, but some serious attempt at explaining what it is
> for a general public (including a reference to Professor Lennon's
> work) is surely evidence of growing interest in the media. Worth
> remembering that High Life has a readership that very
> considerably exceeds any UK national paper. For reference the
> article is on page 24 of the November High Life. Anyway, for what
> it's worth...
> Chris Hughes
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