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Brand activation in thanatourism: a comparative study of the Bram Stoker Festival and the Whitby Goth Weekend
(Technological University of the Shannon Midlands Midwest, 2022)
The life and work of Dubliner Bram Stoker influenced a niche
tourism product popularly consumed today - gothic festivals.
Gothic or “dark tourism” (thanatourism) festivals attract high
spending tourists, usually in ...
Dark Sky Eco Tourism Guide
(Dark Sky Ecotourism, 2023)
The
dark sky evokes basic human emotions and
connects us all to the human story, of how we
watch the dark sky, tell and create stories about
the stars in the sky and beings in the dark
With
the deterioration of the ...
Mark Twain and the Innocents Abroad: illuminating the tourist gaze on death
(Emerald, 2013-08-02)
Purpose
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 ...
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 ...
The show must go on(line) - social media marketing during a pandemic: the case of two Dracula themed dark tourism festival
(Kutztown University of Pennyslvania, 2021)
The novel “Dracula” written by Bram Stoker has initiated travel to locations described in the book for many decades (Iordanova; Muresan and Smith; Hoppen et al.; Skal; Light). People travel to the locations familiar from ...