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This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of ‘dark tourism’, the contemporary commodification of death within international visitor economies. Shining a light on dark tourism and visitor sites of death or disaster allows us to better understand issues of global tourism mobilities, tourist experiences, the co-creation of touristic meaning, and ‘difficult heritage’ processes and practices. Adopting multidisciplinary perspectives from authors representing every continent, the book combines ‘real-world’ viewpoints from both industry and the media with conceptual underpinning, and offers comprehensive and grounded perspectives of ‘heritage that hurts’. The handbook adopts a progressive and thematic approach, including critical accounts of dark tourism history, dark tourism philosophy and theory, dark tourism in society and culture, dark tourism and heritage landscapes, the ‘dark tourist’ experience, and the business of dark tourism. The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies will appeal to students and scholars with an interest in aspects of memorialisation and morality in sociology, death studies, history, geography, cultural studies, philosophy, psychology, business management, museology and heritage tourism studies, politics, religious studies, and anthropology. .

Dark tourism. --- Black tourism (Dark tourism) --- Grief tourism --- Thanatourism --- Tourism --- Sports-Sociological aspects. --- Tourism. --- Culture. --- Human Geography. --- Historiography. --- Sociology of Sport and Leisure. --- Tourism Management. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Global/International Culture. --- Memory Studies. --- Historical criticism --- History --- Authorship --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Holiday industry --- Operators, Tour (Industry) --- Tour operators (Industry) --- Tourism industry --- Tourism operators (Industry) --- Tourist industry --- Tourist trade --- Tourist traffic --- Travel industry --- Visitor industry --- Service industries --- National tourism organizations --- Travel --- Criticism --- Historiography --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- Sports—Sociological aspects. --- Management. --- Human geography. --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization

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This is the first book of its kind to examine railway heritage in the context of tourism in a comprehensive, internationally relevant manner. It explores the challenges faced by developers and operators of railway heritage destinations including financial, legal and managerial sustainability in the modern tourism industry. These themes are exemplified by a variety of case studies of railway heritage in tourism from regions around the world including North, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Australasia. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of cultural tourism as well as researchers and practitioners of industrial heritage tourism, along with graduate and senior undergraduate students.

Heritage tourism. --- Railroad travel. --- Rail travel --- Railroads --- Routes of travel --- Train travel --- Transportation --- Travel --- Voyages and travels --- Cultural tourism --- Tourism --- Heritage tourism --- Railroad travel --- cruise rail tourism. --- cultural heritage tourism. --- destination planning. --- industrial heritage. --- rails to trails. --- railway heritage tourism. --- trains.