A dark tourism spectrum: Towards a typology of death and macabre related tourist sites, attractions and exhibitions

Tourism

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 145-160

  Stone, Philip R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dark tourism; Death; Framework; Macabre; Product; Supply

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION; TOURIST ATTRACTION; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TOURIST DESTINATION; TRAVEL DEMAND;

EID: 33745844522     PISSN: 13327461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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