A Fright Tourism Bibliography

 Try this for starters ...

American Haunts. 2020. American Haunts: Facts. Accessed September 2022. http://www.americahaunts.com/ah/facts/. 

Andersen M.M., Schjoedt U., Price H., Rosas F.E., Scrivner C., and Clasen M. 2022. Playing With Fear: A Field Study in Recreational Horror. Psychological Science 31(12) 1497–1510, http://DOI.org/ 10.1177/0956797620972116

Ashworth, G., and R. Hartmann. 2005. Horror and human tragedy revisited: the management of sites of atrocities for tourism. Cognizant Communication Corporation.

Ashworth, G., and R. Isaac. (2015) Have we illuminated the dark? Shifting perspectives on ‘dark’ tourism, Tourism Recreation Research 40(3): 316-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2015.1075726

BBC. 2017. Hong Kong: Man dies at haunted house attraction. See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41300031 (accessed 12/4/2022)

Bristow, R. S. 2020. Communitas in Fright Tourism. Tourism Geographies 22(2): 319-337. http://doi: 10.1080/14616688.2019.1708445.

Bristow, R.S. 2022.  Fright Tourism. In Buhalis, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. 

Bristow, R. S., and I. Jenkins. 2020. Geography of fear: fright tourism in urban revitalization. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events 12(2): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2019.1631319

Bristow, R. and Keenan, D. 2018. Fright Tourism: a Study of Fear.  e-Review of Tourism Research (eRTR). 15(1): 63-78. https://ertr-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/ertr/index.php/ertr/article/view/165

Bristow, R. S., and M. Newman. 2005. Myth vs. fact: An exploration of fright tourism. In K. Bricker, (comp., Ed.), Proceedings of the 2004 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium, Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-326. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, pp. 215-221. https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/9597

Brown, S., P. McDonagh, and C. Shultz. 2012. Dark marketing: ghost in the machine or skeleton in the cupboard?  European Business Review 24(3): 196-215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/095553412112224771 

Busby G. 2022. Dracula tourism. In Buhalis, D. (ed) Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

Clasen, M. 2012. Monsters evolve: A biocultural approach to horror stories”, Review of General Psychology 16(2): 222-229. http:// doi.org/10.1037/a0027918

Clasen, M. 2017. Why horror seduces. Oxford University Press.

Currie, R. R. 1997. A pleasure-tourism behaviors framework. Annals of Tourism Research 24(4): 884-897. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0160-7383(97)00051-0

DeVisser-Amundson, A., A. De Korte and S. Williams. 2016. “Chill or thrill”: the impact of the “polarity paradox” on hospitality and tourism. Journal of Tourism Futures 2(1): 71-78.

Hand, R. J., and M. Wilson. 2000. The Grand-Guignol: aspects of theory and practice. Theatre Research International 25(3): 266-275.

Houran, J., S. Hill, E. Haynes, and U. Bielski. 2020. Paranormal tourism: Market study of a novel and interactive approach to space activation and monetization. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly 61(3): 287-311.

Hoffner, C. A., and K. Levine. 2005. Enjoyment of mediated fright and violence: A meta-analysis. Media Psychology 7(2): 207-237. https://doi.org/10.1207/S1532785XMEP0702_5

Holloway, J. 2010. Legend-tripping in spooky spaces: Ghost tourism and infrastructures of enchantment. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 28(4): 618–637. http://doi.org/:10.1068/d9909

Hollycombe. 2022. Orton and Spooner, World’s Oldest Haunted House. Accessed September 2022 from https://www.hollycombe.co.uk/fairground/haunted-cottage

Jurković, T. 2013. Blood, monstrosity and violent imagery: Grand-Guignol, the French theatre of horror as a form of violent entertainment. Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation, 4(1).

Kaplan, A. 2012. Dracula: The Life of Vlad the Impaler. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.

Kendrick, W. M. 1991. The thrill of fear: 250 years of scary entertainment. Grove Weidenfeld.

Kerr, M. 2015. Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear. Public Affairs, NY.

Light, D. 2007. Dracula tourism in Romania Cultural identity and the state. Annals of Tourism Research 34(3), 746-765.

Light, D. 2009. Performing Transylvania: Tourism, fantasy and play in a liminal place. Tourist Studies 9 (3): 240-258. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797610382707

Light, D. 2016. The Dracula Dilemma: Tourism, Identity and the State in Romania. Routledge.

Light, D. 2017. The undead and dark tourism: Dracula tourism in Romania. In G. Hooper and J.J. Lennon (eds) Dark Tourism: Practice and Interpretation  (pp. 121-133) Routledge, Abingdon.

Light, D., S. Richards and P. Ivanova. 2021. Exploring “gothic tourism”: a new form of urban tourism? International Journal of Tourism Cities.  Advance online publication.

Linton, R. 1951. Halloween. Scientific American 185(4), 62-67.

McEvoy, E. 2016. Gothic tourism. Springer.

McClung, G. W. 1991. Theme park selection: Factors influencing attendance, Tourism Management 12(2): 132-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/0261-5177(91)90068-5

McKendry, B. 2013. The History of Haunted Houses, Fangoria America Haunts (special edition), The Brooklyn Company, NY. pp 6-7.

Milman, A. 2001. The future of the theme park and attraction industry: A management perspective.  Journal of Travel Research 40(2): 139–147.

Morton, L. 2013. Trick or treat: A history of Halloween. Reaktion Books.

National Retail Federation. 2022. Halloween Data Center.  Retrieved from https://nrf.com/insights/holiday-and-seasonal-trends/halloween/halloween-data-center

NBC Universal (2014) 12/04/2022, 16:30 Scared to Death? Teen Has Fatal Heart Attack at Ohio Haunted House  See https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/scared-death-teen-has-fatal-heart-attack-ohio-haunted-house-n230811 (accessed 12/4/2022)

Olbrys Gencarella, S. 2007. Touring history: Guidebooks and the commodification of the Salem Witch Trials, The Journal of American Culture 30(3): 271-284.

Podoshen, J. S. 2013. Dark tourism motivations: Simulation, emotional contagion and topographic comparison. Tourism Management 35: 263–271. http://doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2012.08.002

Powell, R., and K. Iankova. 2016. Dark London: Dimensions and characteristics of dark tourism supply in the UK capital. Anatolia 27(3): 339–351.

Raine, R. 2013. A dark tourist spectrum. International Journal of Culture, tourism and hospitality Research 7(3): 242-256.

Ruide, K. 2019. Japanese amusement park’s new horror attraction involves handcuffing visitors in the dark. Sora News 24, 25 March.

Seaton, A. V. 1996. Guided by the dark: From thanatopsis to thanatourism. International Journal of Heritage Studies 2(4): 234-244.  https://doi.org/10.1080/13527259608722178

Spracklen, K., and B. Spracklen. 2014. The strange and spooky battle over bats and black dresses: the commodification of Whitby Goth Weekend and the loss of a subculture. Tourist Studies 14(1): 86-102. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797613511688

Stone, P.  2006. A dark tourism spectrum: Towards a typology of death and macabre related tourist sites, attractions and exhibitions. Turizam 54(2): 145-160. https://hrcak.srce.hr/161464

Stone P.  2009. "It's a Bloody Guide": Fun, Fear and a Lighter Side of dark Tourism at the Dungeon Visitor Attractions, UK. In R. Sharpley & P. Stone (Eds.), The Darker Side of Travel: The Theory and Practice of Dark Tourism (pp. 167-185). Bristol: Channel View.

Stone, P.R. and Grebenar, A., 2022. ‘Making Tragic Places’: dark tourism, kitsch and the commodification of atrocity. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change 20(4), 457-474. DOI: 10.1080/14766825.2021.1960852

Tamborini, R., and J. Weaver. 1996. Frightening entertainment: A historical perspective of fictional horror. In Horror films: Current research on audience preferences and reactions (pp. 1–13). New York: Routledge.

Time Out. 2022. Daiba Haunted School. See https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/things-to-do/daiba-haunted-school (accessed July 2022).

Weir, R. E. 2012. Bewitched and Bewildered: Salem witches, empty factories, and tourist dollars. Historical Journal of Massachusetts 40(1-2): 178-212.

Wright, D. W. M. 2018. Terror park: A future theme park in 2100. Futures 96, 1-22.

Wyatt, B., A. Leask, and P. Barron. 2020. Designing dark tourism experiences: an exploration of edutainment interpretation at lighter dark visitor attractions, Journal of Heritage Tourism http://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2020.1858087

Wyatt, B. 2022.  Dark Visitor Attractions.   In Buhalis, D. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing. Edward Elgar Publishing. 

Halloween Movies on 16mm

 

Hmmm, what film would you want to see?

Halloween Carbondale Style

 While pretty tame , the town is still celebrating Halloween.  So I got my latest long sleeve T-shirt for the season:

I have this on 16 mm of course.  But you can watch it https://archive.org/details/night_of_the_living_dead_dvd

But back in C'dale, a few years later it got out of hand.

Shatter

 Time to recognize my brother for his acting in 

Shatter (2022)

Shatter

Madness Has Many Faces.

SYNOPSIS: A small-town detective must follow the cryptic clues of an escaped schizophrenic patient to solve a bizarre murder only to unveil a revelation even more bizarre than the crime itself.

YEAR PRODUCED: 2020

RUNTIME: 91

GENRE:  Horror >> Psychological,   Thriller,  

RATING: NR

DIRECTOR: Chris Schwartz

WRITER(s): Chris Schwartz, Donovan Schwartz

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER(s): Chris Schwartz

PRODUCER(s): David Wigfield

MAIN CAST: Bob Strouse (Detective Matthews), Mercer Bristow (David Willard)

OTHER/SUPPORTING CAST: Joseph Veltre (Matthews Partner) Rod Egan (Chief) Scott Geiter (Dr. Vandenberg) Orris Knepp (Bruce Willard) C.J. Ramser (Chet) Julie Ufema (Miss Carly)

COMPOSER/ORIGINAL MUSIC: Chris Schwartz, Matt Ware

Watch the trailer here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igNphe9mBK8

And if you have Amazon, you can rent or buy it here.

CFP IASNR Conference in Maine 2023

 Call for Submissions!

2023 IASNR Conference

Portland, Maine, USA

Greetings,

Next year’s conference will be held in Portland, Maine, USA at the Holiday Inn By The Bay in Portland, Maine. Details of the event can be found on the 2023 IASNR Conference website.

Call for Organized Sessions: Proposals for organized panels, paper sessions, roundtables, and workshops for the 2023 IASNR Conference are now being considered! Organized Sessions represent an opportunity to bring together a group of scholars to present and discuss work focusing on a particular integrative theme or topic. The due date for proposed organized sessions is December 1, 2022.

General Call for Abstracts: Abstract submissions for individual papers and posters for presentation at the 2023 IASNR Conference are now being considered! We encourage submissions that are relevant to the symposium theme and those that focus on the interactions between social and ecological systems. The due date for abstract submissions is February 1, 2023.

Submission Information: More information on submission requirements and instructions can be found on the conference website under “Submission, Registration, & Schedule Information.”

For more information about the conference or about IASNR, please email info@iasnr.org.

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On a personal note I have not attended this conference for some years back when it was called ISSRM,  But I can state that it was a great conference, and if still living on the East Coast, I would consider travelling to Maine since it is within driving distance and I have not travel funds.  My list of past presentations over 20 years at this conference include:

“Mineral spas to cosmetic surgery: is health tourism sustainable?” 15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, Vienna, Austria, July 2009.

“Eco-medical tourism in Costa Rica:  is it sustainable?” 14th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Burlington, VT, USA, June 2008.

“Smart Growth and Open Space Protection:  The Community Preservation Act in Massachusetts.” ISSRM 2006, a Symposium in the Series of International Symposia on Society and Resource Management, Vancouver, Canada, June 2006.

“Macabre Tourism: A Geographical Comparison of Salem, Massachusetts and Transylvania, Romania.” ISSRM 2004, a Symposium in the Series of International Symposia on Society and Resource Management, Keystone, CO, June 2004.

"Mapping Ecotourism Data on the Web: Internet Technology for Virtual Tourism.” International Symposia on Society and Resource Management, Sardinia, Italy, October 2002.

“Volunteer-based Recreation Land Management: The Eyes and Ears for the Appalachian Trail.”  International Symposia on Society and Resource Management, Sardinia, Italy, October 2002.

"Interactive Trail Maps on the Web: An Examination of Multi-Attribute Decision Making.” The Ninth International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Bloomington, IN, June 2002.

"No Boundaries for Tourism on the Internet?  Eliminating Tourism Boundaries on the Internet.” Eighth International Symposium on Society and Resource Management.  Bellingham, WA. June 2000.

“Virtual Tourism:  the Ultimate Ecotourism?” The Seventh International Symposium on Society and Resource Management.  Columbia, MO. May 1998.  (Published in Tourism Geographies).

 “The New Ecology and Geographic Approaches to Environmental Analysis.” The 1997 International Symposium on Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management in the Americas.  Belize, Central America. February 1997.

“Management Implications of Recreation Activity Packages:  A Cross Regional Analysis.”  The Sixth International Symposium on Society & Resource Management.  State College, PA.  May 1996.

"Boating in Massachusetts: Origins, Destinations and Motivations.” The Fifth International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Ft. Collins, CO.  June 1994.

"Travel Diversification as a Measure of Recreation Activity Packages.” The Fourth North American Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Madison, WI. May 1992.

"Managing Carrying Capacity Objectives:  The Monitoring of River Recreationists to Maintain Quality Experiences.” Second Symposium on Social Science in Resource Management.  Champaign/Urbana, IL. June 1988.

 "Recreation Expenditures and Opportunity Theory:  The Case of Illinois".  Second Symposium on Social Science in Resource Management.  Champaign/Urbana, IL. June 1988.

 

Halloween 2022

 Lots of positive news about Halloween this year.  

News from https://nrf.com/insights/holiday-and-seasonal-trends/halloween/halloween-data-center

highlights important things like Costumes:

$10.6 Billion US is the expected expenditure too! And over a $100 per household.

Halloween is big business.  Figures are double from 6 years ago.

For Halloween movies see this link for some locations.

Oh, donate your extra candy to a senior center or food pantry.

Día de los Muertos

Halloween time, so what about this cultural event?   Día de los Muertos or Day of the Dead, is a popular event in Latin America.

See this post from UK on a Mexico National Park.

See also this issue of Tourism Geographies.

SERR 2023

 Greetings Recreation and Tourism Colleagues!  A forwarded message for SERR:

This is a reminder to mark your calendar for the 2023 Southeast Environment and Recreation Research (SERR) conference located in beautiful and hip Asheville, NC. We hope you can join us for another great conference.

When: March 26-28, 2023

Where: Asheville, NC

What: Sessions at SERR include empirical, conceptual, or theoretical work related to:

Leisure and recreation behavior

Management of leisure programs and services

Methodological aspects of recreation and tourism research

Nature-based travel and tourism

Outdoor recreation and education

Park, protected area, and equivalent reserves planning & management

Parks, physical activity, and health

Recreation economics or policy

Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management

Who: Graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, agency planners, land managers, and researchers are all strongly encouraged to attend the conference and submit a proposal for an oral or poster presentation.

A call for abstracts will be made in the upcoming weeks. More details will be available

at: https://serrconference.org 

We look forward to seeing you at SERR in 2023!

Best Regards,

The SERR Planning Committee

I attended this conference back in the late 1980s and presented these papers:

"Defining Outdoor Recreation Activity Packages Based on Travel Behavior.” Annual Southeastern Recreation Research Symposium.  Asheville, NC. February 1989.

"Validation of Recreation Quality Monitoring Measurements by River Zones.” Annual Southeastern Recreation Research Symposium.  Asheville, NC. February 1988.

"Monitoring Recreation Quality River Zones.” Annual Southeastern Recreation Research Symposium.  Asheville, NC. February 1987.

AT RELO in Washington, MA (16th October 1974)

 Hiking south on the 16th of October I awoke to rain.  "Shit, I said, hoping it would stop before I got up.  Well it didn't, so I hike to this LT losing the relocation around Washington Town Hall.  I followed the old AT,  I arrived at the October MT LT before noon, changed my wet clothes & made pancakes for lunch , cause I didn't have any break."

A seven mile day. See the old and new maps of the trail below.

On a later trip I hiked the new section of trail and took these pics.

Notice this stone wall.

I found a few stone walls along the new trail and the LiDAR image with the historic map gives me a clue about who lived there.

Of course you would know this if you used the 1939 trail guide.

Berkshire Hills Conference. 1939. “The Berkshire Hills, Members of the Federal Writers'

Project of the Works Progress Administration for Massachusetts”. Funk & Wagnalls Co: NY.

The next day, I left the trail.

Camping out in the AT Berkshires (Tuesday 15 October 1974)

 On the 15th of October 1974. I was hiking on the AT south.  I camped out some 3 miles south of Dalton.  As I recall it was a cloudy day.

This is the historic topo for the area south of Dalton, so I camped out somewhere here.

And this map of my hike into Warner Hill area more recently.  I tried the AT on one trip but after climbing Warner Hill, I saw a fairly steep descent into the former homestead.  On the next trip I followed the old wood road into the settlement.

Notice the foundations on this LiDAR image on the AT corridor.

And some details here, showing stone walls, and foundations of the 19th century farm.  Blue lines represent the NPS boundary while the red (even chopped off) shows the Trail:

Here are some pics of the foundations taken November 2020.

This is a north/south roadway.

You can see this old road from the air photos.

Here is a Mass GIS air photo from 2021 showing cleared Warner Hill (old apple orchard) on left and old wood road on right.

So, next time you want to virtually explore an area, try Google Earth with historic imagery and topo maps.

LiDAR maps are a bit more difficult to find so search "LiDAR viewer" and "location" to see what might be available.  The imagery varies by location, availability and quality.

South of Greylock (14 October 1974)

 I left Williams College on the 14th of October, climbed over Mt. Greylock, the tallest peak in Massachusetts.  I camped at Kitchen Brook LT, that I believe has been torn down and replaced with Mark Noepel Shelter.  The LT was about four miles south of the summit so should be on this map somewhere.

The trail has since been relocated to the east as shown in the newer USGS map and the State Park map here.

If you were hiking the trail in 1939, you could have used this trail map.

Berkshire Hills Conference. 1939. “The Berkshire Hills, Members of the Federal Writers'

Project of the Works Progress Administration for Massachusetts”. Funk & Wagnalls Co: NY.

Get your free copy from Archive.org.

The next day I continued south, passing through Cheshire and Dalton to camp out.

Even today, RELOs are taking place on the Appalachian Trail

 I tried a google search to find relos on the AT, hoping to find details of the more significant changes in the route over the decade like the on in Virginia (1950s), Cumberland Gap (PA) and so on.  What I found are the numerous ones more recently.  Here are the links.

https://www.mcall.com/sports/outdoors/mc-nws-app-trail-relocation-20210915-mjdhvlsgzraghelwnc5rym4d7m-story.html

https://virginiasmtnplayground.com/relocated-section-of-the-appalachian-trail-will-officially-open/

https://www.ratc.org/part-1-dentons-and-campbells-lead-a-170-mile-relocation-of-the-appalachian-trail/

https://www.hudsonrivervalleyramble.com/ramble/events/ev-detail/appalachian-trail-rehabilitation-relocation-project

https://ktalehighgapat.weebly.com/news/planned-relocations-on-ktas-section-ofthe-appalachian-trail

https://www.satc-hike.org/at-relocation-2022.html

https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=59211

https://m.facebook.com/events/284296643109318/?source=3&action_history=null

https://smokymountainnews.com/archives/item/32652-a-t-gets-1-2-miles-longer

https://www.nynjtc.org/news/appalachian-trail-rerouted-west-mountain-harriman-state-park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N8htcfyJoo

https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=59209

and some news clips

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-12-27-1992362042-story.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-02-24-mn-24470-story.html

This is why the official length of the AT continues to grow (or shrink).

In the meantime, here are some photos of a relo in Massachusetts, some 200 feet I believe, to avoid a wet spot.

Thanks to the thousands of AT Volunteers!

And if interested a paper on volunteers.