Colleagues....
Apologies for Cross-Posting
RE: Dark Tourism Conference (March 2007)
I am delighted to provide further details on the forthcoming one-day
conference event, "Dark Tourism: Current Themes, Issues &
Consequences".
The event shall be held at the University of Central Lancashire,
Preston, UK, in association with The Tourism Society (London, UK) on
Tuesday 27th March 2007.
Further programme and booking information is attached.....
Additionally, further details may be found at www.dark-tourism.org.uk
and a list of invited speakers are highlighted below.
In the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact me off-list at
[log in to unmask] if you wish further details on this exciting
opportunity about the 'darker side of tourism'....
Dark Tourism: Shedding Light on a Fuzzy Concept
Professor Richard Sharpley
(University of Lincoln)
Something nasty in the guidebook: Approaches to Thanatourism
Management
Professor Tony Seaton
(University of Bedfordshire)
Tragedy and Heritage: The Case of Cambodia
Professor John Lennon
(Glasgow Caledonian University)
Injunction and Disjunction: Confronting the Holocaust
Rex Bloomstein
(Film Director & Producer – KZ)
Business, Battlefields and Tourism – A Practitioner’s Perspective
Frank Baldwin
(MD – Business Battlefields)
Making Absent Death Present: Dark Tourism and Mortality in Contemporary
Society
Philip Stone
(University of Central Lancashire)
Open Forum:
Dark Tourism – Future Directions
With very best wishes
PHIL
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Philip R. Stone
University Senior Lecturer
Editor - The Dark Tourism Forum
Dark Tourism: Current Themes, Issues & Consequences Conference
27th March 2007, UCLan, Preston, UK
Visit www.dark-tourism.org.uk for further conference details and
booking information
Recent Publication(s)
Stone, P.R (2006) "A Dark Tourism Spectrum: Towards a typology of death
and macabre related tourist sites, attractions and exhibitions" Tourism:
An Interdisciplinary International Journal, Vol 52(2), p:145-160. [
Available via www.dark-tourism.org.uk or visit
http://www.iztzg.hr/turizam/last.htm ]
CONTACT DETAILS
University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)
Lancashire Business School
Department of Tourism & Leisure Management
PRESTON
PR1 2HE
United Kingdom
Room: Greenbank 130
Tel: (+44) 01772 894 769 (Direct Line)
Tel: (+44) 01772 894 900 (Admin Office)
Fax: (+44) 01772 892 927
Email: [log in to unmask]
University Website: www.uclan.ac.uk
Personal Profile: www.philipstone.me.uk
Dark Tourism is the act of travel to sites of death, disaster and the
seemingly macabre... Learn more about the 'darker side of tourism' by
visiting The Dark Tourism Forum at www.dark-tourism.org.uk
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