Schlachtfelder als touristische Destinationen: Zum Konzept des Thanatourismus aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Sicht

Samida Stefanie ()
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Samida Stefanie: Heidelberg School of Education, Voßstraße 2, D–69115 HeidelbergHeidelberg, Germany

Zeitschrift für Tourismuswissenschaft, 2018, vol. 10, issue 2, 267-290

Abstract: In 1921 the Austrian publicist Karl Kraus decried tourism to the battlefields of the First World War as “advertising trips to hell”. One hundred years later, the original sites of the battles of the First World War are still popular tourist sites, commemorating the many thousands of dead during this devastating war. Since the 1990s, the concept of thanatourism and the study of this phenomenon have undergone rapid development. However, this applies – with few exceptions – only to Anglophone tourism research. Using the example of battlefield tourism, this relatively young and little-noticed concept in Germanspeaking countries will be critically discussed and its knowledge potential for cultural tourism research will be explored.

Keywords: Battlefield tourism; thanatourism; european ethnology/cultural anthropology; Schlachtfeldtourismus; Thanatourismus; Europäische Ethnologie/Empirische Kulturwissenschaft; Battlefield tourism; thanatourism; european ethnology/cultural anthropology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1515/tw-2018-0016

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