Geography of fear: fright tourism in urban revitalization

Bristow, Robert S.; Jenkins, Ian

doi:10.1080/19407963.2019.1631319

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“…Furthermore, in their initial research, Foley and Lennon (1996), as well as Seaton (1996) described the concept of dark tourism as travel encounters with death. Besides defining it as a 'dark' one, other authors also researched this type of tourism, labelling it as thanatourism (Christou & Hadjielia Drotarova, 2021;Jagiellonski, 2015;Lee et al, 2011;Lloyd-Parkes et al, 2021), fright tourism (Bristow, 2020;Bristow & Jenkins, 2020;Bristow & Newman, 2004), trauma tourism (Clark, 2006(Clark, , 2009, grief tourism (Lewis, 2008;Sharpley & Stone, 2009), morbid tourism (Blom, 2000;da Silva, 2018) and death tourism (Biran et al, 2014). However, authors, such as Dunkley et al (2007Dunkley et al ( , 2011 and Sun and Lv (2021), summarized the main terms used in the available literature and they indicated that the concept of 'dark tourism' is represented in a majority of such research, considering the fact that it clearly implies the sense of 'darkness' in this unique selective type of tourism, throughout visiting the sites related with death, various types of disaster and human sufferings (Iliev, 2020;Light, 2017).…”

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Does a visitor of dark sites have a dark personality?

Jovanović

Mijatov²,

Šuligoj

2021

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Previous research on dark tourism in vulnerable post-conflict areas, such as South-Eastern Europe, has overlooked the nature of visitor personalities. Accordingly, the main purpose of the present study is to determine which personality traits (dark triad, sadistic impulse, and six personality traits) are related to preference for dark tourism sites. The sample consisted of 227 respondents from Serbia who completed an online questionnaire. Using a multivariate general linear model, it was found that respondents high in Machiavellianism tended to prefer dark exhibitions, while respondents high in psychopathy tended to prefer visiting conflict/battle sites. Visitors to fun factories as an additional type of dark tourism sites showed low levels of sadism, while narcissism showed no effect on preference for dark tourism sites. Hence, only agreeableness and honesty-humility showed a significant effect on preference for dark tourism sites (dark exhibitions and conflict/battle sites). These results show interesting differences in dark sites visitors’ personalities.

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Does a visitor of dark sites have a dark personality?

Jovanović

Mijatov²,

Šuligoj

2021

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“…Th e proportion of the mountain people willing to travel immediately aft er travel restrictions are over is signifi cantly greater than the people from mid-hills and the Terai. Geography of fear (Bristow & Jenkins 2020;Modly 2009) varies according to Eco regions as the proportion of infected persons are lower in mountain areas compared to mid-hills and Terai.…”

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Domestic Tourism in COVID-19 Era: Travel Choice in Himalayas Correlates to Geographic Origin and Age

Aryal¹,

Aryal

Niraula³

et al. 2022

The Gaze: J Tourism & Hosp.

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COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent has created recession in the tourism industry on the global scale impacting the livelihood of the millions of people worldwide. Speedy recovery of the tourism industry is essential to ensure the development progress do not retard drastically due to this pandemic. As the world is severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and international tourism will take quite a bit longer time to recover, domestic tourism could be a way forward for the recuperation of the industry. Therefore, this article aims to understand the potential of domestic tourism to keep the momentum of tourism development, after the pandemic situation gets over. Data on general characteristics of the respondents and their attitude towards travel after restrictions are over were collected using online survey. Descriptive and regression analyses were used to understand the relationship between travel decisions and respondents’ attributes. The travel decision was found significantly related to the age and geographic origin of the respondents indicating those who are less susceptible to infection are willing to travel sooner than other. Study indicates the expansion of tourism demand in relatively less popular destinations and diversified tourism products which might pose both the challenges and opportunities for tourism industry in post-COVID-19 situation. The findings of our study are expected to help in planning the post-pandemic recovery of the tourism industry in the country.

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“…Ghost tourists are attracted to places linked with supernatural occurrences and may also be interested to visit spiritual destinations. Dark tourism refers to tourism involving travel to places historically associated with death, disaster, and tragedy (Bristow & Jenkins, 2020; Lennon & Foley, 2000; Sharpley & Stone, 2009). Pharino et al (2018) stated that in some cases, spiritual tourism and dark tourism overlap with paranormal tourism (Figure 1).…”

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“…Research concerning the demand for and experience of ghost tourism has been scarce (Dancausa et al, 2020). Tourists may desire to visit supernatural sights to terrify themselves (Bristow & Jenkins, 2020; Bristow & Newman, 2005; Weidmann, 2016) as well as encounter similar supernatural happenings (Hanton, 2019; Pharino et al, 2018) in haunted destinations. Pharino et al (2018) first proposed that unusual sensations such as sight, sound, temperature, sense of fear, and reports of a sixth sense in ghost site settings produce tourist paranormal experiences.…”

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“…Studies examining ghost tourism have been limited. Previous qualitative research studies have focused on ghost tourism in politics, travel writing, human ethics, and travel operations (Bristow & Jenkins, 2020; Garcia, 2012; Hanks, 2011; Holmes & Inglis, 2004; Obrador & Carter, 2010; Passey, 2018; Pharino & Pearce, 2020; Pinder, 2001; Stugris, 2018; Thompson, 2010) or have studied fictional stories such as Dracula, with identifiable physical locations (Light, 2007; Reijnders, 2011). Based on SOR theory, this study analysed tourist experience and tourist behavioural intentions to bridge the gap in ghost tourism scholarship.…”

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Tourist behavioural intentions in ghost tourism: The case of Taiwan

Lee

2021

Journal of Tourism Research

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This study used stimulus‐organism‐response theory to identify hypothetical relationships among tourist perception, emotion, memorability, and behavioural intention in ghost tourism. A questionnaire survey was conducted, and 445 valid responses were collected at the Liu Ancient Building. The results revealed significant positive relationships between tourist perception and positive and negative emotions. Furthermore, the results indicated that emotion correlated with memorability. With regard to ghost tourism, positive emotions considerably affect memory than negative emotions. Memorability, a precise predictor of behavioural intention, plays a mediating role between positive emotion and behavioural intention, particularly in ghost tourism. This study provides some suggestions for enhancing behavioural intention and guidance with regard to ghost tourism.

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Geography of fear: fright tourism in urban revitalization

Cited by 15 publications

References 55 publications

Does a visitor of dark sites have a dark personality?

Does a visitor of dark sites have a dark personality?

Domestic Tourism in COVID-19 Era: Travel Choice in Himalayas Correlates to Geographic Origin and Age

Tourist behavioural intentions in ghost tourism: The case of Taiwan

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