Between place and story: Gettysburg as tourism imaginary

Chronis, Athinodoros

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2012.05.028

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“…For instance, the narratives concerning Alcatraz in America and Robben Island in South Africa both provide the tourist audience with a sense of 'hope', but the penal museum in Ontario, Canada suggests indifference and intolerance as much as inspiration (Walby and Piche 2011;Strange and Kempa 2003). To explore further, tourist imagination also plays an important role in the reinforcement of competing ideologies, as many dark tourism activities seek to reconcile comparisons between imaged landscapes and topographical reality (Podoshen 2013;Chronis 2012). Whilst sites associated with human tragedy have received considerable academic attention, understanding experience at natural disaster sites remains extremely scarce, particularly earthquake sites (Prayag and Ryan 2012).…”

Section: Theoretical Contextmentioning

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Dark touristic perception: Motivation, experience and benefits interpreted from the visit to seismic memorial sites in Sichuan province

Tang

2014

J. Mt. Sci.

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This study investigates the motivations of Chinese domestic tourists visiting seismic memorial sites after the great Wenchuan earthquake of 2008, and examines their interpretation of experiences and benefits of the visits. Recent research on dark tourism has raised the possibility that people are attracted to death and memorial sites in ways different from other tourist attractions. The study used an empirical research design employing questionnaires to collect data from 255 Chinese domestic visitors at seismic memorial sites in west Sichuan. Analysis revealed that the obligation of commemoration mixed with curiosity represents a different set of travel motivation in dark tourism settings than in other kinds of tourism. In addition, the empirical evidence also suggests an interrelated pattern between motivations, experiences and benefits. This study implies that Chinese domestic tourists were attracted in ways different from other tourist attractions both because they tended to fulfill their obligation of commemoration and were interested in destruction; and visitor experiences played an important mediating role between travel motivations and benefits gained.

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Section: Theoretical Contextmentioning

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Dark touristic perception: Motivation, experience and benefits interpreted from the visit to seismic memorial sites in Sichuan province

Tang

2014

J. Mt. Sci.

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“…These include tourisms associated with the American Civil War (Chronis, 2012), the First and Second World Wars (Cooper, 2006;Scates, 2006;Winter, 2012), Vietnam (Henderson, 2000), Cambodia (Sion, 2011), Rwanda (Friedrich & Johnston, 2013), Sri Lanka (Hyndman & Amarasingam, 2014), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Causevic & Lynch, 2011;Naef, 2014), the Middle East (Milstein, 2013), as well as tours to more recent sites of terrorism (Sather-Wagstaff, 2011). Likewise, authors have developed a wide range of concepts and heuristic 'labels' to make sense of tourism practices and representations within potentially contested moral and memorial terrain, such as 'dark' or 'thanatourism' (Foley & Lennon, 1996;Seaton, 1999;Stone, 2006), 'battlefield tourism' (Dunkley, Morgan, & Westwood, 2011;Ryan, 2007), '(post-)war' or 'post-conflict tourism', 'atrocity heritage' (Ashworth, 2004;Fyall, Prideaux, & Timothy, 2006), or alternatively, 'Phoenix tourism' (Causevic & Lynch, 2011), 'reconciliation tourism' (Higgins-Desbiolles, 2003) as well as 'peace tourism' (Moufakkir & Kelly, 2010).…”

Section: Contested Memories and Dissonant Heritage In Tourismmentioning

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Tourism, conflict and contested heritage in former Yugoslavia

Naef

Ploner

2016

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

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Although, historically, there have always been travellers crossing the Balkan Peninsula, Todorova (1994) notes that early travellers were usually heading for important centres such as Constantinople or Jerusalem, and considered South-East Europe as a peripheral place where people were just passing through. The region is only really discovered in the eighteenth century along with an increasing interest in the East. More organised forms of tourism appear at the beginning of the nineteenth century, emerging first around railway lines and thermal therapy resources, and then expanding towards the coastlines. A large part of these developments took place in Croatia and the ‘Dalmatian Riviera’, but other regions also experienced the arrival of visitors and the first organised trip in Bosnia was proposed by Thomas Cook & Sons in 1898

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“…The co-creation experience results from the interaction of an individual at a specific place and time and within the context of a specific act and environment (Prahalad and Ramaswamy, 2004). Chronis (2005Chronis ( , 2012 provides a number of examples of co-creation within the specific context of battlefields in his studies of Gettysburg (a key battle in the American Civil War of 1861-65). For example, he (2005, p.394) demonstrates that the story of the battle represents a type of 'puzzle' which visitors create for themselves:…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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‘Lest we forget’: a veteran and son share a ‘warfare tourism’ experience

Fallon

Robinson

2016

Journal of Heritage Tourism

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‘Warfare tourism’ represents an increasingly significant dimension of contemporary tourism. This paper provides a fresh perspective on participation in ‘warfare tourism’ by investigating the behaviour and experiences of a living veteran and his son returning to two theatres of war in which the veteran had served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Active interviews with the two family members were used to gather rich data regarding the two extended trips, which had been funded by ‘Heroes Return’, to Australia in 2012 and Sri Lanka in 2013. The findings indicate that some of the facets of visiting the fallen at other dark tourism sites, such as empathetic identification and personal connection, are also very relevant to trips shared between the living. However, with the living these contribute to a powerful co-created experience in which ‘closer’ bonds between the travellers can be developed. Furthermore, whilst the experiences at times represented ‘bitter-sweet’ nostalgia for the veteran, they also provided the son with the opportunity to ‘look through his father’s eyes’ from both a past and current perspective. Given that there will be war veterans as long as conflicts exist, the results have valuable messages for all those dealing with veterans in the future

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Between place and story: Gettysburg as tourism imaginary

Cited by 96 publications

References 47 publications

Dark touristic perception: Motivation, experience and benefits interpreted from the visit to seismic memorial sites in Sichuan province

Dark touristic perception: Motivation, experience and benefits interpreted from the visit to seismic memorial sites in Sichuan province

Tourism, conflict and contested heritage in former Yugoslavia

‘Lest we forget’: a veteran and son share a ‘warfare tourism’ experience

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