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This book provides a global and thematic examination of the relationships between archaeology and tourism, and a critical analysis of thinking in the area of archaeology-based tourism. It focuses on the differences and similarities between archaeology-based tourism and heritage tourism and highlights the interdependence and dissonance between tourism and archaeology and archaeological traditions. The volume offers a systematic investigation of current issues and implications in the relationship between tourism and archaeology from both tourism and archaeological perspectives. It is a key academic resource for students, researchers and practitioners in tourism, archaeology, cultural heritage management and anthropology.

In recent years there has been a growth in both the practice and research of dark tourism; the phenomenon of visiting sites of tragedy or disaster. Expanding on this trend, this book examines dark tourism through the new lens of pilgrimage. It focuses on dark tourism sites as pilgrimage destinations, dark tourists as pilgrims, and pilgrimage as a form of dark tourism. Taking a broad definition of pilgrimage so as to consider aspects of both religious and non-religious travel that might be considered pilgrimage-like, it covers theories and histories of dark tourism and pilgrimage, pilgrimage to dark tourism sites, and experience design. A key resource for researchers and students of heritage, tourism and pilgrimage, this book will also be of great interest to those studying anthropology, religious studies and related social science subjects.

Die Vergangenheit ist wie ein fremdes Land, das man bereisen kann. Das Phänomen des Geschichtstourismus hat zwar eine lange Geschichte, aber erst ab dem 19. Jahrhundert boten neue Verkehrsmittel, verbesserte Infrastrukturen und nicht zuletzt auch steigende Einkommen die Voraussetzung dafür, Geschichte als Reiseziel massenmedial zu bewerben und schließlich ein Massenphänomen daraus zu machen. Die Autor/innen dieses Bandes nehmen verschiedene Stationen dieser Entwicklung in den Blick – romantische Reisen, heilige Orte, nationale Stätten, Schlachtfelder, Friedhöfe sowie andere dunkle Orte – und beschreiben, wie Geschichte als touristische Attraktion konstruiert und wahrgenommen wurde.

Over the last decade, the concept of dark tourism has attracted growing academic interest and media attention. Nevertheless, perspectives on and understanding of dark tourism remain varied and theoretically fragile whilst, to date, no single book has attempted to draw together the conceptual themes and debates surrounding dark tourism, to explore it within wider disciplinary contexts and to establish a more informed relationship between the theory and practice of dark tourism. This book meets the undoubted need for such a volume by providing a contemporary and comprehensive analysis of dark tourism.

Reflects the importance of heritage to cities, and cities to the creation and marketing of heritage products, not least within tourism. This book presents a review of the state of urban heritage tourism at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

'On Tourism is an issue born largely from the proceedings of a conference'Points of contact : performance, tourism and identity''.