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Mark Twain and the Innocents Abroad: illuminating the tourist gaze on death
(Emerald, 2013-08-02)
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In 1867, the author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, undertook a great pleasure excursion across Europe. Visiting a range of sites, from those associated with the Christian Cult of Death to ...
Conflict and chaos: a case study of Ireland's Covid-19 outbound travel market
(WSB University in Poznań, 2021)
During the COVID-19 pandemic the international outbound travel market from Ireland collapsed, declining at one point by 94%. This case study paper explores the environment which framed the collapse in travel, positioning ...
Beauty versus tragedy: thanatourism and the memorialization of the 1994 Rwandan genocide
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-07)
Almost 20 years after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda remains confronted with the complexity of an enduring reconciliation process; a process both enabled and complicated by the arrival and increase of international tourism to ...
The geographies of thanatourism
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-08-11)
This article explores the geographies of thanatourism, a form of travel where tourists encounter places associated with death, disaster and the macabre. It seeks to encourage geographers' engagement with thanatourism to ...