War Battlefields, tourism and imagination

Temačni turizem

“…Zgoraj navedeni pojmi so morda najbolj znani, niso pa edini. Na tem mestu je potrebno navesti še nekaj drugih, ki jih zasledimo v mednarodnem prostoru (navedeni so v svoji izvorni obliki brez prevoda): sombre tourism (Butcher, 2003), fright tourism (Bristow in Newman, 2005), grief tourism (Dunkley idr., 2007), conflict heritage tourism (Mansfeld in Korman, 2015), genocide tourism (Dunkley idr., 2007), trauma tourism (Clark, 2006), war-related tourism (Bigley idr., 2010), post-war tourism (Wise, 2011), war tourism (Keyes, 2012), warfare tourism (Šuligoj, 2016b; 2017), battlefield tourism (Dunkley idr., 2011), tourism of memory (Hertzog, 2012) ali memorable tourism (Drvenkar idr., 2015). Ta pojmovna raznolikost dokazuje, da je raziskovalno področje še vedno v neki zgodnji razvojni fazi, saj je potreba po jasni definiciji še vedno zelo prisotna (Stone in Sharpley, 2008, str.…”

Dark Events of the Istrian Countryside: An Electronic Media Perspective

“…The following terms are also related to the connection between tourism and death, which are not fully synonyms: holidays in hell (O'Rourke, 1988), thanatourism (Seaton, 1996, p. 240), morbid tourism and an attraction-focused artificial morbidity-related tourism (Blom, 2000), sombre tourism (Butcher, 2003;Hughes, 2008), fright tourism (Bristow & Newman, 2005), atrocity tourism (Ash-worth & Hartmann, 2005), grief tourism (Dunkley, Morgan, & Westwood, 2007), conflict heritage tourism (Mansfeld & Korman, 2015), genocide tourism (R. A. Dunkley et al, 2007), trauma tourism (Clark, 2006), war-related tourism (Bigley, Lee, Chon, & Yoon, 2010), post-war tourism (Wise, 2011), war tourism (Keyes, 2012), warfare tourism (Šuligoj, 2016; 2017), battlefield tourism (Dunkley, Morgan, & Westwood, 2011;Ryan, 2007), tourism of memory (Hertzog, 2012), or memorable tourism (Drvenkar, Banožić, & Živić, 2015;Kim, 2013), favela tourism, (Robb, 2009), atomic or nuclear tourism (Freeman, 2014;Gusterson, 2004) and dystopian dark tourism (Podoshen, Venkatesh, Wallin, Andrzejewski, & Jin, 2015). The term 'dark tourism' is the most frequently searched tourismrelated keyword in the developed countries of North America, Europe, and Australia (see https://trends .google.com).…”

Warfare tourism: an opportunity for Croatia?

“…It is noticeable that young people are seeking more comprehensive information about the past and want to understand war atrocities (Cooper, 2006). In this context, Thurnell-Read (2009) -in the case of Auschwitz-Birkenau -suggests two possible measures relevant for Walter, 2009a;Winter, 2009b;Winter, 2011;Dunkley et al, 2011;hertzog, 2012;miles, 2013 hiroshima andnagasaki siegenthaler, 2002;cooper, 2006 auschwitz-Birkenau and other holocaust sites Gilbert, 1986;miles, 2002;ashworth, 2002;jilovsky, 2008;thurnell-Read, 2009;Biran et al, 2011;cohen, 2011;kidron, 2013kidron, vietnam War sites henderson, 2000kim, 2013;suntikul, 2013;Lema & agrusa, 2013 Dann, 1998;Goulding & Domic, 2009;causevic & Lynch, 2011;Baillie, 2012;naef, 2013a;naef, 2013b;kesar & tomas, 2014kesar & tomas, cambodia War sites hughes, 2008 the youth: (1) achieving a greater understanding of the historical facts of the Holocaust; and (2) the affirmation of humanist values as understood, at times ambivalently, with reference to contemporary society. It is also significant that Auschwitz-Birkenau hosts a heritage experience rather than a merely dark tourism one (Biran et al, 2011).…”

“…Systematic development of battlefield tourism was initiated after World War One (Hertzog, 2012;Walter, 2009a;Winter, 2009bWinter, , 2011. Today, warfare sites probably represent the largest single category of tourist attractions in the world (Henderson, 2000;Ryan, 2007;Smith, 1998; see also Weaver, 2000;Wiedenhoft Murphy, 2010).…”

“…Many of these authentic sites have distinct conservational, educational and commemorative meaning, which must engender a degree of empathy between the visitor and the (past) victim (Henderson 2000, Hertzog, 2012Kidron, 2013;Miles, 2002;Robb, 2009). Minić (2012), Seaton & Lennon (2004), Wight & Lennon (2007), Walter (2009), Biran et al (2011, Lee, Bendle, Yoon & Kim (2012), Ozer, Ersoy, and Tuzunkan (2012) and Stone (2012), in this sense, argue that dark tourism is only the culture's subtype and part of heritage or its special form of expression.…”