Thanatourism's Final Frontiers? Visits to Cemeteries, Churchyards and Funerary Sites as Sacred and Secular Pilgrimage

Seaton, A. V.

doi:10.1080/02508281.2002.11081223

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“…Given the expansion of tourist milieus, scholars have begun to consider other forms of pilgrims such as the latest romantics or hippies who began frequenting India and the Himalayas beginning in the 1960s. There is also a growing market for 'New Age' spiritual travel for pilgrimage, personal growth and non-traditional spiritual practices (Attix, 2002), and an increasing amount of research is being done on modern secular pilgrimage where the search for the miraculous is a trait shared by religious and secular pilgrims alike (Alderman, 2002;Ashworth & Hartmann, 2005;Attix, 2002;Digance, 2003;Reader & Walter, 1993;Seaton, 1999Seaton, , 2002.…”

Section: Pilgrimage and Tourismmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…In the United States, pilgrimage to Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion in Memphis is the most obvious example (Alderman, 2002;Reader & Walter, 1993). However, new forms of pilgrimage, such as 'dark tourism', are also emerging as travellers visit cemeteries, churchyards, funerary sites, and even crime scenes (Seaton, 1999(Seaton, , 2002. Given the expansion of tourist milieus, scholars have begun to consider other forms of pilgrims such as the latest romantics or hippies who began frequenting India and the Himalayas beginning in the 1960s.…”

Section: Pilgrimage and Tourismmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Tourism, Heritage and Pilgrimage: The Case of Haifa's Bahá'í Gardens

Collins–Kreiner

Gatrell

2006

Journal of Heritage Tourism

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This paper examines the tourist experience within the context of the Bahá'í Gardens in Haifa, Israel. Using Cohen's (1979) typology and Smith's (1992) continuum model, we differentiate between visitors and perceptions of the same site. The study employs a mixed methodological approach that includes participant-observation, archival documents and short-informal and unstructured interviews with Bahá'í volunteers, tourists and guides, as well as empirical observations concerning the material landscape and the observed practices of pilgrims and tourists. As a result of the garden's dual-purpose nature (secular-religious), two very different experiences co-exist: those that relate to the 'secular' and those that relate to the 'religious' tourist. The contemporary nature of the garden makes the case of the Bahá'í Gardens and its cultural and economic context both more distinct -but also somewhat ambiguous as the perceived boundaries are unclear.

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Section: Pilgrimage and Tourismmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Pilgrimage and Tourismmentioning

confidence: 98%

Tourism, Heritage and Pilgrimage: The Case of Haifa's Bahá'í Gardens

Collins–Kreiner

Gatrell

2006

Journal of Heritage Tourism

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“…An increasing number of studies of memorials can be observed in the tourism literature, on, for example, graveyards (Seaton, 2002), the holocaust (Beech, 2000;Biran et al, 2010;Cohen, 2011;Kidron, 2013;Podoshen & Hunt, 2011), victims of communism (Light & Young, 2010, in press), prisons (Strange & Kempa, 2003;Wilson, 2004), slavery (Buzinde & Santos, 2009;Dann & Seaton, 2001;Mowatt & Chancellor, 2011) and battlefields and war memorials (Chronis, 2005;Dunkley, Morgan, & Westwood, 2011;Seaton, 1999;Siegenthaler, 2002;Slade, 2003;Light & Young, 2010;Winter, 2009).…”

Section: Visiting Memorialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Memorials to the victims of Nazism: the impact on tourists in Berlin

Brown

2014

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

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This qualitative study explores tourist responses to memorials to the victims of Nazism in Berlin and the impact they have on the tourist experience. The findings are located in the field of study known as dark tourism, of which visiting memorials is a part. The analysis shows that tourists increased their knowledge of the crimes committed by the Nazis, thus fulfilling the educational function of memorials. Tourists were also overwhelmed by their experience; they attested to feelings of sadness, shock, anger, despair and incomprehension. These feelings made it hard for them to resume the role of tourist after their exposure to a memorial. There was acknowledgement of the extent of commemoration practised in Germany.

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“…Thanatopsis has been pivotal in the consolidation of all types of thanatourism or dark tourism (Seaton, 2002).…”

Section: The View From Above: From Native 'Dark' Gazing To Foreign Slmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism in the European economic crisis: Mediatised worldmaking and new tourist imaginaries in Greece

Tzanelli

Korstanje

2016

Tourist Studies

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The paper interrogates the rationale and origins of changing imaginaries of tourism in Greece in the context of the current economic crisis. We detect a radical change in the 'picture' of the country that circulates in global media conduits (YouTube, Facebook, official press websites and personal blogs). We enact a journey into past media representations of Greece as an idyllic peasant and working-class site, but proceed to highlight that such representations are being recycled today by Greeks living and studying abroad. This stereotype, which focuses on embodied understandings of happiness and well-being is being challenged by the current economic crisis. In its place, we detect the emergence of a new dark and slum imaginary, propagated by both native and global intellectuals-activists. The new imaginary both tests in practice and bears the potential to re-invent Greece as a tourist destination. Not only is the change informed by the European histories of art, slum and dark tourism focusing on middle-class refinement and philanthropy, it also bears the potential to promote Greece as a cultural tourist destination in global value hierarchies in controversial ways.

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Thanatourism's Final Frontiers? Visits to Cemeteries, Churchyards and Funerary Sites as Sacred and Secular Pilgrimage

Cited by 91 publications

References 6 publications

Tourism, Heritage and Pilgrimage: The Case of Haifa's Bahá'í Gardens

Tourism, Heritage and Pilgrimage: The Case of Haifa's Bahá'í Gardens

Memorials to the victims of Nazism: the impact on tourists in Berlin

Tourism in the European economic crisis: Mediatised worldmaking and new tourist imaginaries in Greece

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