This book offers critical scenarios of dark tourism futures and examines how our significant dead will be remembered in future visitor economies. It aims to inspire critical thinking by probing the past, disrupting the present and provoking the future. The volume outlines key features of difficult heritage and future cultural trauma and highlights the role of technology, immersive visitor experiences and the thanatological condition of future dark tourism. The book provides a collection of informed observations of how future societies might recall their memorable dead, and how the noteworthy dead might be (re)created and retained through dark tourism. The book forecasts a dark tourism future that is not only perilous but also full of possibilities. It is a helpful resource for students and researchers in tourism, heritage, futurology, sociology, human geography and cultural studies.
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Contributors
Philip R. Stone and Daniel W.M. Wright: Preface: Dark Tourism Futures: Thoughts, Ideas, Scenarios
Chapter 1. Philip R. Stone: Vertopia: The Future of Dark Tourism Places and Our Digital Dead
Chapter 2. Rachael Ironside and Craig Leith: Virtual Afterlife: Dark Tourism in the Hereafter
Chapter 3. Santa Zascerinska: From 'Bucket List' to 'Afterlist': (Dark) Tourism for the Afterlife
Chapter 4. Daniel W.M. Wright: 'Beyond Human': Dark Tourism, Robots and Futurology
Chapter 5. Özge Kılıçarslan, Mehmet Yavuz Çetinkaya and Kamil Yağci: The Future of Technology and Dark Tourism Experiences
Chapter 6. Diāna Popova, Elizabete Grinblate and Raivis Sīmansons: Bridging Virtual Reality and Dark Heritage
Chapter 7. Richard Fawcus: 'Virtual Monument Wars': The Digital Future of Difficult Heritage
Chapter 8. Marián Alesón-Carbonell: Language as a Mediator: Commodifying Future Dark Tourism
Chapter 9. Saffron Dale, Crispin Dale and Neil Robinson: 'McDeath' – A Future of Dark Travel and End of Life Palliative Care
Chapter 10. Alix Varnajot: Enlightening Dark Tourism Horizons in a Post-Apocalyptic Arctic: A Geopoetic Approach
Chapter 11. Maximiliano E. Korstanje: 'Shrines and Rites of Passage': Toward a Future of Dark Tourism Chronicles
Chapter 12. Elspeth Frew and Clare Lade: Survivor Voices and Disaster Education: Future Commemoration and Remembrance at Dark Tourism Sites
Chapter 13. Abit Hoxha and Kenneth Andresen: Future of Dark Tourism in Kosovo: From Divisions to Digital Possibilities
Chapter 14. Ann-Kathrin McLean: Millennials, Transitional Memory and the Future of Holocaust Remembrance
Chapter 15. Aija van der Steina, Maija Rozite, Inese Runce and Kaspars Strods: Between Revival of Memory and Dark Tourism: The Future of Holocaust-Related Sites in Latvia
Chapter 16. Marta Soligo: 'Mirrors of Society': Cemetery Tourism Futures
Chapter 17. Janine Marriott: 'Not the Right Sort of Visitors': Future Challenges of Cemetery Tourism
Chapter 18. Allan Brodie: 'Into the horrors of the gloomy jail': Towards a Future of UK Prison Tourism and Penal Architecture
Chapter 19. Brianna Wyatt: 'Finding a Light in Dark Places': Lighter Dark Tourism Futures
Chapter 20. Luisa Golz and Tony Johnston: Future of Dark Tourism Festivals: Technology and the Tourist Experience
Chapter 21. Robert S. Bristow, Alina Gross and Ian Jenkins: Future Dystopian Attractions: Benign Masochism in Dark Tourism
Chapter 22. Michael Brennan: Future Directions in Death Studies and Dark Tourism
Philip R. Stone: Afterword: Back to the Dark Tourism Future
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