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Cover for Museums as <i xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">in populo</i> dark tourism sites: a case study of Visitor experience.

This chapter examines how both indigenous and non-indigenous visitors to the Western Australian Museum (Perth, Western Australia) both connected with and authenticated their experiences of the museum's Aboriginal gallery (Katta Djinoong), and the emotional responses and learning that flow from...

Author(s)
Bond, N.; Carr, A.; Comtesse, D.
ISBN
2020 CABI (H ISBN 9781789241877)
Type
Book chapter
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Cover for Dark tourism or pilgrimage in the museum? Considering the case of Emmett Till's casket.

This chapter first provides an overview of the historical context of the life, murder and the subsequent trial of the killers of Emmett Till (an African-American boy who was lynched in 1955). Next, discussion shifts to the controversial decisions that the Smithsonian faced in their efforts to...

Author(s)
Cook, M.
ISBN
2020 CABI (H ISBN 9781789241877)
Type
Book chapter
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Cover for Risk and safety challenges for religious tourism and events.

This book is about an increasing awareness of the risks and safety challenges facing religious events/festivals on a global scale. The authors provide practical applications, models and illustrations of religious tourism and pilgrimage management from a variety of international perspectives....

Author(s)
Korstanje, M. E.; Raj, R.; Griffin, K.
ISBN
2018 CAB International (H ISBN 9781786392282)
Type
Book
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Cover for Terrorists and the dehumanization of the other.

This chapter discusses the roots of terrorism and its effects in a globalized world. Firstly, some studies within the main literature are placed under scrutiny. The problems states have in keeping fear under control and avoiding domestic chaos are examined. Secondly, the intersection of Islam and...

Author(s)
Korstanje, M. E.
ISBN
2018 CAB International (H ISBN 9781786392282)
Type
Book chapter
Abstract

Risk perception has been a newer field of research for tourism scholars. The purpose of this paper is to add to this growing literature by examining how some horror movies play upon the discourses of risk, ethnocentrism, hospitality, and radicalised otherness as a part of their plot lines. In doing ...

Author(s)
Korstanje, M. E.; Olsen, D. H.
Publisher
Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, Geneva, Switzerland
Citation
International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, 2011, 1, 3/4, pp 304-317
Abstract

This study explores the ways in which the post-'9/11' film industry employs tourism as a plot that re-creates mythical imageries of the 'West' in relation to a radical 'other'. Reflecting on sociological and psychological concepts of 'vulnerability' and 'risk', the authors undertake a content...

Author(s)
Korstanje, M. E.; Tarlow, P.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 2012, 10, 1, pp 22-33
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Cover for Risk assessment and disaster management for religious events.

This chapter demonstrates the principles of risk assessment, how health and safety management works in practice, and the significant risks involved in managing religious events. The focus of the chapter is on crowd management associated with religious festivals. The importance of contingency...

Author(s)
Raj, R.; Griffin, K.
ISBN
2018 CAB International (H ISBN 9781786392282)
Type
Book chapter
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Cover for Borough of the dead: the weight of hip hop's history and tourism's dark pilgrimage to the Bronx.

This chapter focuses on both dark tourism and pilgrimage as they coalesce in the Bronx around hip hop - the defining music genre and period of history for the borough - and how managers of planned sites that address this history are attempting to address the range of expectations that visitors will ...

Author(s)
Donica, J.
ISBN
2020 CABI (H ISBN 9781789241877)
Type
Book chapter
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Cover for Designing experiences at holocaust memorial sites.

After situating Holocaust tourism in the context of dark tourism, principles of experience design are explained and discussed, including the progression of economic value, the Four Realms of Experience, and THEME. Examples are given from specific Holocaust tourism sites to further illustrate how...

Author(s)
Ward, P.; Hill, B.
ISBN
2020 CABI (H ISBN 9781789241877)
Type
Book chapter
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Cover for Risk management or the right to ritual: attempting to control the masses at the Kumbh Mela.

This chapter introduces the Hindu festival Kumbh Mela as a motivating factor driving religious tourism and pilgrimage. Specific attention is given here to risk management at the 2013 Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, a mega-event in which over 100 million pilgrims attended and bathed in the river Ganga....

Author(s)
Griffin, D.; Radhakrishnan, Y. P.; Griffin, K.
ISBN
2018 CAB International (H ISBN 9781786392282)
Type
Book chapter

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