Does tourism illuminate the darkness of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Yoshida, Kaori; Bui, Huong T.; Lee, Timothy Jeonglyeol

doi:10.1016/j.jdmm.2016.06.003

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“…Guernica or the ruins of Belchite remind of the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War. Memorials in Hiroshima and Nagasaki [ 41 ], Jeju Peace Park in Korea [ 42 ] or the Comfort Women Museum [ 43 ] both in South Korea remind of atrocities in the Asian region. Regardless of the danger, current conflict zones, e.g.…”

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Death as attraction: the role of travel medicine and psychological travel health care in ‘dark tourism’

Bauer

2021

Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines

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Still an evolving field in travel medicine, psychological travel health has not yet been linked to tourist products that may affect travellers’ mental wellbeing. Dark tourism, the travel to sites linked to death, atrocities and suffering, is a product that, on the one hand, attracts people with a keen interest in death-related attractions and, on the other hand, may inflict psychological scars. Of particular concern are travellers with undiagnosed or diagnosed mental illness.This is the first article bringing travel medicine and dark tourism together. Understanding dark tourism is crucial to appreciate the wide variety of potential stimuli leading to anything from amusement to travel-related psychoses. Travellers’ motivations for and emotional responses to visits of ‘dark’ sites provide an important input into individually tailored psychological pre and post-travel health care. Relevant recommendations include suggestions for education, clinical practice and much needed further multidisciplinary research.

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“…However, relating to this topic, darkness as a socially constructed concept is Eurocentric and seems to work only in the English language as translations, e.g. dunkler Tourismus or turismo oscuro, make little sense [ 70 ], and may be incomprehensible, or not applicable at all, to Asian perspectives [ 41 ].…”

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Death as attraction: the role of travel medicine and psychological travel health care in ‘dark tourism’

Bauer

2021

Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines

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“…However, Western and Asian visitation to the dark sites are not similar. For example, Kang et al, (2012) study dark tourism within a peace paradigm between North and South Korea; Yoshida et al (2016) explore the matrix of educational and war tourism in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan), and suggest that Eurocentric perspectives of dark tourism are not necessarily applicable to other indigenous Asian perspectives. Cohen (2018) argues that in some Asian countries, namely, India, Japan, Vietnam, Th ailand, dark tourism can be dimensioned and aff ected by local customs and religious traditions.…”

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Contested Interpretation of Vietnam War Heritage: Tour Guides’ Mediating Roles

Ngo¹,

Bui

2019

Jnl Tourism & Adventure

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The legacy of the Vietnam War associates Vietnam with being a destination for dark tourism. Located in the central Vietnam, Quang Tri, the former Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) has high density of historical sites left from the Vietnam War. Visitation to the war-related sites for commemoration and secular pilgrimage is among the top motivations for tourists arriving in the city. The current research seeks to investigate the mediating roles of on-site guides at the historical sites of Quang Tri. By observing on-site tour guide performance, analysing their narratives and conducting interviews with guides working at monuments and historical sites, and reflection of tourists visiting the sites, the authors provide a unique perspective of guiding at contested war heritage, where on-site guides perform multiple mediating roles. The findings of the study highlight the need to reappraise the role of on-site guides and have implications for the planning and development of guiding services at historic sites.

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“…As noted by various commentators (Biran and Hyde, 2013; Yoshida et al , 2016; Cohen, 2018) one of the problems affecting conceptual and theoretical concordance is that dark tourism research to date has been mostly Anglo, or Eurocentric, which has limited its perspective and affected the potential of research to follow unfamiliar, yet potentially enlightening paths. So not only has the majority of research focused on dark tourism in Britain, the USA and Europe, but emerging concepts have been grounded by Western viewpoints of mortality (Light, 2017).…”

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Dark tourism consumption in Mexico City: a new perspective of the thanatological experience

Speakman¹

2019

JTA

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Purpose The Euro-centric nature of dark tourism research is limiting the perspective and restricting the scope of contemporary theory. Hence, this paper aims to explore how dark tourism consumption differs in a society apart from the Anglo/Eurosphere. This is done by testing Stone and Sharpley’s (2008) thanatological framework in Mexico, a country whose residents are renown for having a unique perspective on death, to assess whether Mexican dark tourism consumers undergo a similar, or different, thanatological experience to that proposed in the framework. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts a qualitative approach in the form of a case study. The opinions of Mexican dark tourism consumers were gained by using the technique of semi-structured interviewing in four separate dark tourism sites within Mexico City, with coding serving as the form of analysis. Findings The findings show that due to the non-existence of an absent/present death paradox in Mexican society, the research participants experienced a thanatological process that contrasts with those from Western societies, which indicates that the thanatological framework is unsuitable in the context of Mexican dark tourism. At the same time, the study contests the common perception that Mexicans have a jovial familiarity with death, and demonstrates that in this case the thanatological process confirmed an acceptance of death, rather than any kind of intimacy. Originality/value The research is valuable in that it is a response to recent calls for research in geographical locations not previously considered in a dark tourism/thanatology context.

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Does tourism illuminate the darkness of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Cited by 54 publications

References 22 publications

Death as attraction: the role of travel medicine and psychological travel health care in ‘dark tourism’

Death as attraction: the role of travel medicine and psychological travel health care in ‘dark tourism’

Contested Interpretation of Vietnam War Heritage: Tour Guides’ Mediating Roles

Dark tourism consumption in Mexico City: a new perspective of the thanatological experience

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