From Geisha girls to the Atomic Bomb Dome: Dark tourism and the formation of Hiroshima memory

Tourist Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 351-366

  Schäfer, Stefanie ^a  

^a Social Science Research Center   (Germany)

Author keywords

atomic bomb; dark tourism; Hiroshima; history; memory; staged authenticity; tourism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995803132     PISSN: 14687976     EISSN: 17413206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468797615618122     Document Type: Article

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