Visiting death and life. Dark tourism and slave castles

Annals of Tourism Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1410-1434

  Mowatt, Rasul A ^a   Chancellor, Charles H ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark tourism; Heritage tourism; Race; Trans Atlantic Slavery; Transnational identity

Indexed keywords

HERITAGE TOURISM; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PHOTOGRAPH; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACE; TOURIST DESTINATION;

CAPE COAST; CENTRAL REGION [GHANA]; GHANA;

EID: 80054707545     PISSN: 01607383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2011.03.012     Document Type: Article

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