The yad vashem holocaust museum: Educational dark tourism in a futuristic form

Journal of Heritage Tourism

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 255-270

  Oren, Gila ^a,b   Shani, Amir ^b  

^a The College of Management Academic Studies ^*  (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dark tourism; Disney; Education; Holocaust; Museum; Theming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923259078     PISSN: 1743873X     EISSN: 17476631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2012.701630     Document Type: Article

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