Dark Tourism in Southern Spain (Córdoba): An Analysis of the Demand

María Genoveva Dancausa Millán, María Genoveva Millán Vázquez de la Torre and Ricardo Hernández Rojas
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María Genoveva Dancausa Millán: Management, Economic Applied and Stadistics, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain
María Genoveva Millán Vázquez de la Torre: Quantitative Methods, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, 14004 Córdoba, Spain
Ricardo Hernández Rojas: Agricultural Economics, Finance and Accounting, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 5, 1-17

Abstract: In recent decades, there has been a change in tourists’ tastes; they want to experience something novel. To satisfy this demand, a new type of tourism, known as “dark tourism”, has arisen; it has various modalities, among which cemetery tourism and ghost tourism stand out, in addition to very different motivations from those of the cultural tourist. In this type of tourism, cemeteries are not visited to appreciate their architecture or heritage but to explore a morbid curiosity about the people buried there; ghost tourism or paranormal tourism seizes on the desire to know the events that occurred there and tends to have macabre content. This study analyzes dark tourism in the province of Córdoba in southern Spain with the aim of knowing the profile of the tourist and his motivation. This study additionally will forecast the demand for this type of tourism, using autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models, which allow us to know this market’s evolution and whether any promotional action should be carried out to promote it.

Keywords: dark tourism; thanatourism; ghost tourism; ARIMA models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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