Dark Tourism: Theory, Interpretation and Attraction
About this ebook
Despite the somewhat morbid nature of many Dark Tourism sites, there is also a positive side. Such sites provide visitors with a chance to reflect on cataclysmic events and draw their own life lessons from events of the past.
Dark Tourism: Theory, Interpretation and Attraction is an edited volume drawing on content from around the world. It is relevant for students, scholars, and academicians associated with the fields of memorialization and morality death studies, history, cultural studies, psychology, business management, museology, and heritage tourism studies, as well as religious studies.
About the author
Anukrati Sharma, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Commerce and Management at the University of Kota, Rajasthan, India. She is the Director of the Skill Development Centre of the same University. She is also Dean (Honorary) of Tourism and Hospitality at Vishwakarma Skills University, Jaipur (A Govt. State University). Dr. Sharma is a Routledge featured author. Dr. Sharma is the Book Series Editor for 'Building the Future of Tourism' published by Emerald Publishing. U.K. and Entrepreneurship and Technology in Tourism and Hospitality, Emerald Publishing. U.K. She is also the Book Series Editor of “Routledge Insights in Tourism Series”, Routledge, U.K. She also serves as Book Series Editor for 'CABI Festival and Event Tourism and Hospitality Series (FETHS)' and 'Perspectives and Anthropology in Tourism and Hospitality (PATH)', Apple Academic Press (CRC Press a Taylor and Francis Group).
Shruti Arora, Ph.D., Guest Faculty, Department of Commerce and Management, University of Kota, Rajasthan, India.
Parag Shukla, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce and Business Management, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India.
