Dark destinations – visitor reflections from a holocaust memorial site

Liyanage, Sherry; Coca‐Stefaniak, J. Andrés; Powell, Raymond

doi:10.1108/ijtc-08-2015-0019

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“…Following to that, the dark sites are also categorised as being a museum. Liyanage et al (2015) further state that dark tourism is considered as part of wider urban and city-based tourism.…”

Section: Potential Dark Attractions In Penangmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, the London Dungeon in England, the Chernobyl site in Ukraine and Alcatraz in the USA. Likewise, Liyanage et al (2015) further inform of the wide variety of dark tourism products in Europe.…”

Section: Dark Tourism and Urban Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although visitation to the dark sites may not be the primary dark attraction for tourists, it is still accounted as one of the touristic activities while participating in city tourism (Liyanage et al, 2015).…”

Section: Potential Dark Attractions In Penangmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The “Pearl of the Orient” as a dark tourism destination in Malaysia

Tan

Lim

2018

IJTC

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential of Penang in being a dark tourism destination in Malaysia with the influence of urban tourism development. Design/methodology/approach A systematic review was conducted to serve as a foundation by highlighting the number of dark tourism studies conducted in Southeast Asia (SEA). Findings The results projected a total of 23 dark tourism studies conducted within the SEA region. These papers revolve around the following key themes that were conducted in these countries: tourists’ behaviour (motivation, satisfaction and experience), nation building and narratives, dark tourism development (management, marketing and implications), theoretical underpinnings and the role of dark tourism. Amongst these, it was found that tourists’ behaviour is the most studied with eight papers while the least is on nation building and theoretical underpinnings of dark tourism with three papers each. Research limitations/implications The lack of dark tourism studies in SEA results in insufficient existing literature which justifies the need of exploring Penang as a potential dark tourism destination. Originality/value This paper builds on prior dark tourism studies that are significantly related to urban tourism but takes a step further by exploring the Asian settings. Specifically, into Malaysia which is more than just an SEA country, but a multicultural one which is rich and diverse with its culture and heritage that leads to many unique tourists’ destinations. This paper extends the geographical scope of the dark tourism literature as it focuses on Penang in Malaysia.

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Section: Potential Dark Attractions In Penangmentioning

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Section: Dark Tourism and Urban Tourismmentioning

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The “Pearl of the Orient” as a dark tourism destination in Malaysia

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Lim

2018

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“…The macabre overtones of some aspects of dark tourism link with, perhaps counter intuitively, the sacrificial and noble aspects of religious pilgrimages. Liyanage et al (2015, p. 285) talk of holocaust memorial sites in the context of dark tourism and “pilgrimage sites” with “religious or spiritual associations relevant to the pilgrims visiting […]”. Farmaki (2013) discusses the issues with dark tourism’s currently prevalent definitions as people may associate such places with religious/cultural/heritage attract Johnston (2013) highlights the historic prominence death and its associated paraphernalia have traditionally held in Christian pilgrimages, with death being commodified as a tourist or pilgrim attraction.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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Religious tourism – a review of the literature

Rashid

2018

JHTI

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Purpose Given the growing importance of religious tourism, the purpose of this paper is to present a review of the literature around the area. Design/methodology/approach All papers with the term “religious tourism” have been searched via Emerald Insight from January 2006 to December 2017. The search was run in June 2017 for the last time and all early cite papers falling under the criteria were also included. This has ensured that key literature produced after the seminal work by Timothy and Olsen (Eds) (2006) has been reviewed. Certain exclusions apply which have been listed in the paper. Findings Key themes from the literature on religious tourism along with new developments and overlaps with other tourism sectors have been highlighted. Originality/value This paper reviews literature spanning more than a decade on religious tourism.

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“…Similarly, Nawijn and Fricke (2015) found that Holocaust tourists experience negative emotions more intensely compared to positive emotions and that these negative emotions can predict long-term behavioral intent better than positive ones. Liyanage, Coca-Stefaniak, and Powell (2015) found that these emotions can linger for a long time after the tourism visit has concluded. In terms of familial sociality and emotion, Kidron (2013) shows that co-presence in atrocity sites enables the greater performance of survivor affect, leading to greater levels of empathy and identification.…”

Section: The Dynamics Of Holocaust Tourismmentioning

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Trajectories in Holocaust tourism

Podoshen

2016

Journal of Heritage Tourism

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This paper examines how tourists engaged in atrocity heritage tourism embark in processing meanings, community discourse and motivations when faced with increasing levels of hostility. Specifically, this research examines how Jewish Holocaust tourists marshal discourses, make sense of meanings and engage with material geographies in an environment of renewed global anti-Semitism. Under the frame of assemblage, Holocaust tourism and its evolving trajectories are examined using qualitative mixed methods. The results demonstrate the transformative effect that certain global happenings can have on consumers when atrocity sites connected to heritage are affected by multiple sets of perceived harmdoers. Additionally, it is demonstrated as to how meanings and motivations are implicated in the evolved discourses of atrocity heritage amongst a group of people with a diasporic identity. Larger theoretical and managerial implications are discussed relating to Holocaust tourism. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Dark destinations – visitor reflections from a holocaust memorial site

Abstract: Citation for this version held on GALA:Liyanage, Sherry, Coca-Stefaniak, Andres and Powell, Raymond () Dark destinations -Visitor reflections from a holocaust memorial site. London: Greenwich Academic Literature Archive.

Cited by 23 publications

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The “Pearl of the Orient” as a dark tourism destination in Malaysia

The “Pearl of the Orient” as a dark tourism destination in Malaysia

Religious tourism – a review of the literature

Trajectories in Holocaust tourism

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