This chapter discusses some of the interconnections between dark tourism and pilgrimage/religious travel within the following four themes: (1) dark tourism and pilgrimage as heritage; (2) dark tourism and pilgrimage as a mechanism of resilience; (3) dark tourism and pilgrimage as a mediator between ...

This chapter discusses not only the evolution of the tourism literature on terrorism and security but also focuses on the new tactics of modern terrorism. Each generation of academics regarded terrorism in different ways, forging a much deeper collective discourse, which this chapter attempts to...

Discussion questions are presented for each of the chapter in this book about risk and safety challenges in religious tourism and events.

This volume is an eclectic multidisciplinary collection of essays related to the interconnections between dark tourism and pilgrimage travel. It focuses on dark tourism sites as pilgrimage destinations, dark tourists as pilgrims, and pilgrimage as a form of dark tourism. Theories and histories of...

This chapter explores the limitations and caveats framed into the specialized literature on tourism and terrorism, focusing particularly on the capacity of terrorism to produce what is termed 'thanatopsis', or contemplations of death, which is the main commodity or experience at dark-related sites. ...

This chapter discusses (i) why the tourism industry is so attractive to terrorism and domestic crime; (ii) the formation of tourist destination image and its multiple facets; and (iii) the elements of tourism security.

This chapter outlines the historical transformation of dark tourism sites from the premodern era to the present. This is done through discussing the idea of sacred journeys through pilgrimage and dark tourism. The chapter also examines the growth of dark tourism through different historical phases, ...

The author of this chapter takes readers on a personal autobiographical journey and discusses his pilgrimages to dark sites, arguing that how a person frames dark tourism events and their distance from these events can lead to different experiences.

After situating Holocaust tourism in the context of dark tourism, principles of experience design are explained and discussed, including the progression of economic value, the Four Realms of Experience, and THEME. Examples are given from specific Holocaust tourism sites to further illustrate how...

This chapter debates the nature of Islamic tourism and the limitations and contradictions of the American tradition, a new emerging academic school that dates back tourism as a direct result of the Industrial Revolution. The chapter puts the American tradition and its development of secularization...