Tourism and Culture in the Age of Innovation

Abstract

Journeys to battlefields or war-related sites are categorised as dark tourism. Dark tourism is travelling to sites associated with death, disasters or atrocities and has emerged as a major tourist attraction (Sharpley, 2009;Lennon and Foley, 2000). As it deals with a wide range of travel related to death and disaster, definitions and descriptions of dark tourism have been eclectic and fuzzy (Sharpley and Stone, 2009). It involves visiting concentration camps, war memorials, cemeteries, scenes of mass murder, horror museums, fields of fatality, sites of natural disasters and perilous places (Dann, 2005), and has been varyingly described as 'morbid tourism' (Bloy, 2000), 'milking the macabre' (Dann, 2005), Thana tourism (Seaton, 1999) 'black spots tourism' or 'sensation sights tourism ' (Rojek, 1997) and 'the heritage of atrocity tourism ' (Tunbridge and Ashworth, 1996).Battlefield tourism can be defined as travelling to war-related sites to remember and commemorate the fallen focusing on spiritual and emotional experience (Baldwin and Sharpley, 2009). The battlefields and other artefacts associated with warfare have been drawing visitors for many centuries (Kang, et. al., 2012). A trip to war-related sites could take many different forms, and visitor backgrounds, attitudes and their reasons for visiting war-related sites could also vary. This paper

Assessing the Performance of Current Strategic Policy Directions towards Unfolding the Potential of the Culture–Tourism Nexus in the Greek Territory

“…Sustainability is deemed to be a major key driver that largely frames the future of the tourism sector nowadays [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. Although sustainability, as a concept and an overarching goal to be achieved by developmental policies, has been at the forefront for more than three decades, the concept of sustainable tourism was not straightforwardly enunciated until almost the end of the second millennium [9,10].…”