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  title info:
    title: Dark tourism
    sub title: understanding visitor motivation at sites of death and disaster
  name:
    name part: Yuill, Stephanie Marie
    name part: 1967-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Jamal, Tazim B.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: People are fascinated with death and disaster. One simply has to watch traffic slow to a crawl when passing a car accident to understand this. However, this fascination goes beyond the side of a highway and enters the realm of tourism. Today, numerous sites of death and disaster attract millions of visitors from all around the world: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Anne Frank's House, Graceland, Oklahoma City, Gettysburg, Vimy Ridge, the Somme, Arlington National Cemetery. The list grows each year as exhibited by the recent creation of an apartheid museum in Johannesburg, South Africa. Due to the increasing popularity of this tourism product, a small number of academics have begun studying the phenomenon. Leading the field are Lennon and Foley who labeled it Dark Tourism, Seaton who coined the term Thanatourism, and Rojek who developed the concept of Black Spots. However, despite ongoing study, there has been a paucity in understanding what actually motivates individuals to sites of dark tourism. Yet understanding motivation is imperative, particularly given the subject and sensitivity of these sites. Some are slowly decaying, and visitors play a large role in their preservation. Subsequently, without proper management, visitor influxes can further deteriorate sites or induce friction with the locals. Knowledge then, also provides administrators the necessary tools to properly manage the varying stakeholders. Although many feel an interest in death and disaster simply stems from morbidity, the range of factors involved extend from an interest in history and heritage to education to remembrance. To begin this study, a list of possible motivations was compiled. Then, to get a better comprehension of these motivations, visitors to the Holocaust Museum Houston were surveyed as a case study. As a commodified, synthetic site of death and atrocity, the museum fits the definitions of a dark tourism site as established by lead academics. Therefore, by asking visitors to the museum what …
  note: by Stephanie Marie Yuill.
  note: "Major Subject: Recreation, Park and Tourism Science."
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created on Apr. 30, 2004.).
  note: Vita.
  note: Abstract.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  note: M.S. Texas A & M University 2003.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis).
  subject:
    topic: Major Recreation, Park & Tourism Sci
  subject:
    topic: dark tourism
  subject:
    topic: tourism
  subject:
    topic: visitor motivation
  subject:
    topic: holocaust
  subject:
    topic: death
  subject:
    topic: disaster
  subject:
    topic: museums
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/89
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 040618
    record change date: 20151026065754.0
    record identifier: in00001841020