Dark tourism, abjection and blood: A festival context

Jeffrey S. Podoshen, Grace Yan, Susan A. Andrzejewski, Jason Wallin and Vivek Venkatesh

Tourism Management, 2018, vol. 64, issue C, 346-356

Abstract: Dark tourism and its implications have been gaining significant prominence in both the literature and in practice in the recent past. Understanding the process and outcomes of dark tourism related to tourists and local hosts can play a key role in relations between the two groups of people. This paper, utilizing long-form interview data and content analysis, examines the psychological processes of some global Jewish citizens in relation to tourism activity and local hosts surrounding historic Holocaust sites located in Eastern and Central Europe. These attribution-oriented processes, which include the group attribution error, the perseverance effect and the role of atypical information generate novel insights into social-psychological activity nested in dark tourism. Our research yields significant implications on collective memory and narrative, representation, authenticity and ownership within the context of dark tourism.

Keywords: Holocaust tourism; Atrocity tourism; Dark tourism; Group attribution error; Attribution theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tourman.2017.09.003

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