Dark tourism: The role of sites of death in tourism

Remember Me: Constructing Immortality: Beliefs on Immortality, Life, and Death

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 167-178

  Lennon, J John ^a   Mitchell, Margaret ^b  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203844540     Document Type: Chapter

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