다크 투어리즘에 대한 탐색적 논의

초록

The term dark tourism was coined by Lennon and Foley to describe the attraction of visitors to tourism sites associated with incidences of death and disaster. For Lennon & Foley, dark tourism is an intimation of post modernity-global communication technologies, the anxiety and doubt about the project of modernity, and tourismification by commodification. On the other hand, Seaton and Ashworth asserted that dark tourism should not be restricted to events with post modernity, specially anxiety and doubt about modernity and its consequences. Out of historical interest, they maintained that dark tourism should be seen as staged around attraction and sites associated with death, acts of violence, scenes of death and crimes against humanity. The authors assert that dark tourism should include visitation to sites to relevant events which have occurred with post modernity. As a consequences, in this study dark tourism is defined as travel to sites associated with death, disaster, acts of violence, tragedy, scenes of death and crimes against humanity with post modernity.

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