Tourism, Social Memory and the Great War

Winter, Caroline

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2009.05.002

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“…Many researchers report that tourists visit sites of wars as pilgrimages to mourn and remember the relatives (Baldwin and Sharpley, 2009;Iles, 2008;Lloyd, 1998;Mosse, 1990;Scates, 2007;Winter, 2009a;Winter, 2011) or to identify themselves with the birth place of their nations (Chronis, 2004;Hyde and Harman, 2011;Slade, 2003). Educational purposes are also dominant motivations for battlefield tourists (Baldwin and Sharpley, 2009;Henderson, 2000;Winter, 2009a;Winter, 2011). Though the sites of battlefields may be interpreted differently depending on the character of the sites, tourists are motivated by remembrance of the dead, educational purposes and curiosity.…”

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“…Nostalgia is felt not just by the war-veterans but by casual visitors too. For many, battlefield pilgrimages are opportunities to reaffirm the sites importance for its military heritage and feel pride and loyalty through a collective social memory (Iles, 2008;Winter 2009a) Even the second and third generation visitors are grief stricken and emotionally engaged while on a battlefield pilgrimage.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A battlefield where soldiers have sacrificed their lives for the national cause is of major importance to not just their relatives, but to their compatriots also. The battles and their locations transcend the living memory and become part of the collective social memory in which the battles are re-created through a range of social procedures, memorials, warfare artefacts, souvenirs and part of the national ideology (Winter, 2009a andb). Nostalgia is felt not just by the war-veterans but by casual visitors too.…”

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Tourism and Culture in the Age of Innovation

Katsoni¹,

Stratigea²

2016

Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics

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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

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2016

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“…These sites and related activities, such as remembrance days, are recognised as an increasingly significant dimension of contemporary tourism (Dunkley, Morgan & Westwood, 2011;Hyde & Harman, 2011;Slade, 2003;Stone, 2006;and Winter, 2009), and therefore one deserving of further academic research (Dunkley et al, 2011). Two research areas already identified in the related literature but lacking indepth consideration are the social dimension of visitation (Hyde & Harman, 2011) and the experiences of veterans (Dunkley et al, 2011).…”

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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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“…Non-religious people may attribute a sacred meaning to a variety of historical sites such that their journeys there can be understood as a form of secular pilgrimage (Hyde and Harman, 2011). While a wealth of research exists on the commodification of the historical past, little scholarly effort has been vested in uncovering the complexity of the motivations, expectations and experiences driving the would-be pilgrims themselves to these sites (Winter, 2009). This study focuses on two different categories of visitors interested in the history of political exile and in the ways in which the traumatic legacy of the Left left its imprints on the Aegean island of Ikaria during the Greek Civil War of 1946-1949.…”

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In search of the exile past: pilgrims and visitors to the island of Ikaria and their bearing on the historical past

Mamoulaki

2016

IJTA

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Tourism, Social Memory and the Great War

Cited by 142 publications

References 15 publications

Tourism and Culture in the Age of Innovation

Tourism and Culture in the Age of Innovation

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

In search of the exile past: pilgrims and visitors to the island of Ikaria and their bearing on the historical past

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