Colleagues...
Some may be interested in this new article published on dark tourism.
Full text is available free of charge with the eReview of Tourism
Research. Link is also available via the 'Special Features' page at The
Dark Tourism Forum site ( visit www.dark-tourism.org.uk )
"A Memorial as Virtual Traumascape: Darkest Tourism in 3D and
Cyber-Space
to the Gas Chambers of Auschwitz"
by Lutz Kaelber (University of Vermont)
http://ertr.tamu.edu/appliedresearch.cfm?articleid=124
Best Wishes
PHIL
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Philip R. Stone
University Senior Lecturer
Editor - The Dark Tourism Forum
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/54_02.htm#5 ]
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
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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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