Thanatourism: Witnessing Difficult Pasts

Tourist Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-72

  Timm Knudsen, Britta ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

affects; Auschwitz Birkenau; body; difficult heritage tourism; experience designs; Ground Zero; in situ museum landscapes; labour camp re enactment; Vilnius; witnessing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960827867     PISSN: 14687976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468797611412064     Document Type: Article

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