Dark tourism: motivations and visit intentions of tourists
A dark tourism motivation construct was developed based on previous studies ( Biran et al., 2014; Bissell, 2009; Lam and Hsu, 2006; Molle and Bader, 2014 ), and used to query previous visit and potential visit separately using a five-point Likert scale ("1 = extremely unimportant"; "5 = extremely important").
Dark Tourists: Profile, Practices, Motivations and Wellbeing
2.1. Dark Tourists and Their Motivation to Dark Tourism Consumption. Stone's (2006) idea of dark tourism goes far beyond related attractions. From this standpoint, diverse well-visited tourist sites may become places of dark tourism due to their history linked with death—e.g., suicides in the Eiffel Tower, tombs in the pyramids of Egypt, the Valley of the Kings, and the Taj Mahal, funeral ...
Motivations and intentions of tourists to visit dark tourism locations
previously visited or plan to visit a dark tourism location. Utilizing a combination of the Push-Pull Factor Theory, the Theory of Planned Behavior, and dark tourism constructs, a new theoretical framework was created to determine the motivations and intentions of tourists visiting dark tourism locations. A total of 1068
Dark tourism: motivations and visit intentions of tourists
Abstract. Purpose -The overall purpose of this study is to utilize the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in combination. with four dark tourism constructs (dark experience, engaging entertainment ...
(PDF) DARK TOURISM: The effects of motivation and environmental
The questionnaire scales of Dark Tourism motivation, environmental attitudes, and Dark T ourism bene ts of experience are referred to by (1)Yuill (2003), Niemelä (2010), and
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some of the questions that sparked the author‟s interest and curiosity in dark tourism. Also, the realization that the author is a dark tourist herself, lead to the curious need to carry out a thesis research, with a topic related to motivation and dark tourism.
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This work aims to address whether knowing what dark tourism is (or not) impacts rumination on sadness, self-hatred, hostility, psychological vulnerability, and tourist wellbeing, as well as practices and motivations for dark tourism. A quantitative approach, based on a survey of 993 respondents, reveals that women and more educated participants know more about dark tourism; people who know ...
(PDF) Consumption, motivation and experience in dark tourism: a
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Institute of Geography, Ss. Cyril and Methodius. University, Skopje, North Macedonia. ABSTRACT. A review of recent relevant literature related to dark ...
(PDF) Consumption, motivation and experience in dark tourism: a
Dark tourism has been recognised as a distinctive tourism phenomenon of the twenty-first century, with increasingly significant numbers of visitors and tourists going to dark tourism attractions and sites, new dark tourism products and attractions emerging, and modern global communication media generating interest in dark tourism attractions, while at the same time affecting the image of ...
Dark tourism in the Philippine context: Indicators, motivations, and
Accordingly, dark tourism is defined as an activity involving visiting places or areas with horrific crimes, genocide, torture, accidents, and disasters Cruz ( Cruz, 2014 ). The motivation for visiting these dark sites include education, curiosity, mourning, remembrance, and entertainment.
Motivations and intentions of tourists to visit dark tourism locations
Dark tourism is an increasingly popular research topic for the tourism industry, however it has been lacking in empirical research contribution. This study provides empirical research to demonstrate and analyze the relationships between four dark tourism constructs (i.e., dark experience, engaging entertainment, unique learning experience, and casual interest) and the Theory of Planned ...
Dark tourism motivations: Simulation, emotional contagion and
Highlights. Dark Tourism can be motivated by processes related to simulation and the emotional contagion. Dark Tourism, similar to media tourism can be motivated by a desire to make comparisons between real and imagined landscapes. Dark Tourism can closely relate to affect and feed from it. 1.
Consumption, motivation and experience in dark tourism: a conceptual
A review of recent relevant literature related to dark tourism indicates that there is a growing academic interest in 'dark tourism consumption', 'dark tourism motivation' and 'dark tourism experie...
Understanding motivation of visitors at dark tourism sites
Research questions ask which push and pull factors of motivation and which other motivational influences play a role at the Memorial Park. ... and Dann (1981) is used to build a theoretical framework for visitor motivation in dark tourism. The researcher also introduces and proposes a connection between these motivation factors and John Urry ...
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Foley who labeled it Dark Tourism, Seaton who coined the term Thanatourism, and Rojek who developed the concept of Black Spots. However, despite ongoing study, there has been a paucity in understanding what actually motivates individuals to sites of dark tourism. Yet understanding motivation is imperative, particularly given the subject and
PDF Dark Tourists: Profile, Practices, Motivations and Wellbeing
Isaac et al. [20] found that memory, gaining knowledge and awareness, and exclusivity were important motiva-tions for dark tourists; also, "( . . . ), consuming dark tourism may allow the individual a sense of meaning and understanding of past disaster and macabre events that have perturbed life projects" [2].
Investigating the motivation-experience relationship in a dark tourism
The study also examines the dimensions of dark tourism motivation and experience and finds that the former partly affects the latter. The exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis aimed to examine why tourists approach and engage with disaster sites and how such experiences may affect tourists motivation and emotional ...
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Spring 2010. ABSTRACT. Dark tourism is a multi-layered mixture of history and heritage, tourism and trage-dies. Humanity has been interested in the end of life since the time of pilgrimages. In contemporary society the individual has been isolated from the end of life and even discussing it is considered taboo.
A Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Review of Dark Tourism: Trends
The interest of academia in studying dark tourism is an axis that has been increasing in recent years (Lv et al. 2022b).In recent decades, many empirical studies in the field of tourism have shown a great interest in the study of tourist destinations whose cultural heritage is related to the dark events of the past (Magee and Gilmore 2015; Sun and Lv 2021).
(PDF) Motivation Factors in Dark Tourism
Motivation Factors in Dark Tourism ... Questions have arisen also about lacking arguments of selecting and ranking five basic needs. Cooper et al. (2008) remind us that while motivation can be stimulated and activated in relation to the "want" to travel, "needs" are dependent upon the human element through psychology and circumstances ...
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dark tourism, the review of dark tourism, its related terms, tourists' motives and emotions. The primary quantitative research is based on a structured questionnaire and the research sample consists of 181 Greek and foreign tourists. Based on the data of our analysis, we came to the conclusion that dark tourism affects moderately the
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This article presents a qualitative phenomenological study designed to explore Black consumer behavior, namely motivation to visit a contemporary dark tourism site in urban America. This aspect of Black consumer behavior was examined to fill a gap in the literature regarding what motivates Black people to visit places where death and suffering ...
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A dark tourism motivation construct was developed based on previous studies ( Biran et al., 2014; Bissell, 2009; Lam and Hsu, 2006; Molle and Bader, 2014 ), and used to query previous visit and potential visit separately using a five-point Likert scale ("1 = extremely unimportant"; "5 = extremely important").
2.1. Dark Tourists and Their Motivation to Dark Tourism Consumption. Stone's (2006) idea of dark tourism goes far beyond related attractions. From this standpoint, diverse well-visited tourist sites may become places of dark tourism due to their history linked with death—e.g., suicides in the Eiffel Tower, tombs in the pyramids of Egypt, the Valley of the Kings, and the Taj Mahal, funeral ...
previously visited or plan to visit a dark tourism location. Utilizing a combination of the Push-Pull Factor Theory, the Theory of Planned Behavior, and dark tourism constructs, a new theoretical framework was created to determine the motivations and intentions of tourists visiting dark tourism locations. A total of 1068
Abstract. Purpose -The overall purpose of this study is to utilize the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in combination. with four dark tourism constructs (dark experience, engaging entertainment ...
The questionnaire scales of Dark Tourism motivation, environmental attitudes, and Dark T ourism bene ts of experience are referred to by (1)Yuill (2003), Niemelä (2010), and
some of the questions that sparked the author‟s interest and curiosity in dark tourism. Also, the realization that the author is a dark tourist herself, lead to the curious need to carry out a thesis research, with a topic related to motivation and dark tourism.
This work aims to address whether knowing what dark tourism is (or not) impacts rumination on sadness, self-hatred, hostility, psychological vulnerability, and tourist wellbeing, as well as practices and motivations for dark tourism. A quantitative approach, based on a survey of 993 respondents, reveals that women and more educated participants know more about dark tourism; people who know ...
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Institute of Geography, Ss. Cyril and Methodius. University, Skopje, North Macedonia. ABSTRACT. A review of recent relevant literature related to dark ...
Dark tourism has been recognised as a distinctive tourism phenomenon of the twenty-first century, with increasingly significant numbers of visitors and tourists going to dark tourism attractions and sites, new dark tourism products and attractions emerging, and modern global communication media generating interest in dark tourism attractions, while at the same time affecting the image of ...
Accordingly, dark tourism is defined as an activity involving visiting places or areas with horrific crimes, genocide, torture, accidents, and disasters Cruz ( Cruz, 2014 ). The motivation for visiting these dark sites include education, curiosity, mourning, remembrance, and entertainment.
Dark tourism is an increasingly popular research topic for the tourism industry, however it has been lacking in empirical research contribution. This study provides empirical research to demonstrate and analyze the relationships between four dark tourism constructs (i.e., dark experience, engaging entertainment, unique learning experience, and casual interest) and the Theory of Planned ...
Highlights. Dark Tourism can be motivated by processes related to simulation and the emotional contagion. Dark Tourism, similar to media tourism can be motivated by a desire to make comparisons between real and imagined landscapes. Dark Tourism can closely relate to affect and feed from it. 1.
A review of recent relevant literature related to dark tourism indicates that there is a growing academic interest in 'dark tourism consumption', 'dark tourism motivation' and 'dark tourism experie...
Research questions ask which push and pull factors of motivation and which other motivational influences play a role at the Memorial Park. ... and Dann (1981) is used to build a theoretical framework for visitor motivation in dark tourism. The researcher also introduces and proposes a connection between these motivation factors and John Urry ...
Foley who labeled it Dark Tourism, Seaton who coined the term Thanatourism, and Rojek who developed the concept of Black Spots. However, despite ongoing study, there has been a paucity in understanding what actually motivates individuals to sites of dark tourism. Yet understanding motivation is imperative, particularly given the subject and
Isaac et al. [20] found that memory, gaining knowledge and awareness, and exclusivity were important motiva-tions for dark tourists; also, "( . . . ), consuming dark tourism may allow the individual a sense of meaning and understanding of past disaster and macabre events that have perturbed life projects" [2].
The study also examines the dimensions of dark tourism motivation and experience and finds that the former partly affects the latter. The exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis aimed to examine why tourists approach and engage with disaster sites and how such experiences may affect tourists motivation and emotional ...
Spring 2010. ABSTRACT. Dark tourism is a multi-layered mixture of history and heritage, tourism and trage-dies. Humanity has been interested in the end of life since the time of pilgrimages. In contemporary society the individual has been isolated from the end of life and even discussing it is considered taboo.
The interest of academia in studying dark tourism is an axis that has been increasing in recent years (Lv et al. 2022b).In recent decades, many empirical studies in the field of tourism have shown a great interest in the study of tourist destinations whose cultural heritage is related to the dark events of the past (Magee and Gilmore 2015; Sun and Lv 2021).
Motivation Factors in Dark Tourism ... Questions have arisen also about lacking arguments of selecting and ranking five basic needs. Cooper et al. (2008) remind us that while motivation can be stimulated and activated in relation to the "want" to travel, "needs" are dependent upon the human element through psychology and circumstances ...
dark tourism, the review of dark tourism, its related terms, tourists' motives and emotions. The primary quantitative research is based on a structured questionnaire and the research sample consists of 181 Greek and foreign tourists. Based on the data of our analysis, we came to the conclusion that dark tourism affects moderately the
This article presents a qualitative phenomenological study designed to explore Black consumer behavior, namely motivation to visit a contemporary dark tourism site in urban America. This aspect of Black consumer behavior was examined to fill a gap in the literature regarding what motivates Black people to visit places where death and suffering ...