The role of media in dark tourism
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Dark tourism is one of the newer forms of tourism. Its popularity is rising whether in the global worldwide range or now even in the area of Central Europe, where many dark tourism places are located. It means that more people are visiting these places, but also more articles, academic and popular ones, are published. Here the role of media can be seen, where on one hand popular articles are published, on the other hand space for people to blog, make webpages or in other ways create content about dark tourism topic that people can discuss afterwards is created. But there is also popular culture connected to dark tourism through media, for example by horror movies or documentaries, that also helps to create image of dark tourism places. The aim of this paper is therefore to capture role of media in dark tourism, analyze in which ways it affects these places on various examples and help to explain how media creates the image and identity of dark tourism places. |