The Future of Dark Tourism

Philip R. Stone is Director of the Institute for Dark Tourism Research (iDTR), University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), Preston, UK. He is the Editor of the International Journal of Dark Tourism Studies. Daniel W.M. Wright is a Fellow of the Institute for Dark Tourism Research (iDTR), University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), Preston, UK. His research interests are dark tourism, thanatology, futurology, technology, heritage and cultural studies and tourism management.

Contributors



Philip R. Stone and Daniel W.M. Wright: Preface: Dark Tourism Futures: Thoughts, Ideas, Scenarios



Chapter 1. Philip R. Stone: Vertopia: The Future of Dark Tourism Places and Our Digital Dead



Chapter 2. Rachael Ironside and Craig Leith: Virtual Afterlife: Dark Tourism in the Hereafter



Chapter 3. Santa Zascerinska: From ‘Bucket List’ to ‘Afterlist’: (Dark) Tourism for the Afterlife 



Chapter 4. Daniel W.M. Wright: ‘Beyond Human’: Dark Tourism, Robots and Futurology



Chapter 5. Özge Kılıçarslan, Mehmet Yavuz Çetinkaya and Kamil Yagci: The Future of Technology and Dark Tourism Experiences 



Chapter 6. Diāna Popova, Elizabete Grinblate and Raivis Sīmansons: Bridging Virtual Reality and Dark Heritage 



Chapter 7. Richard Fawcus: ‘Virtual Monument Wars’: The Digital Future of Difficult Heritage



Chapter 8. Marián Alesón-Carbonell: Language as a Mediator: Commodifying Future Dark Tourism



Chapter 9. Saffron Dale, Crispin Dale and Neil Robinson: ‘McDeath’: A Future of Dark Travel and End of Life Palliative Care 



Chapter 10. Alix Varnajot: Enlightening Dark Tourism Horizons in a Post-Apocalyptic Arctic: A Geopoetic Approach



Chapter 11. Max Korstanje: ‘Shrines and Rites of Passage’: Toward a Future of Dark Tourism Chronicles



Chapter 12. Elspeth Frew and Clare Lade: Survivor Voices and Disaster Education: Future Commemoration and Remembrance at Dark Tourism Sites 



Chapter 13. Abit Hoxha and Kenneth Andresen: Future of Dark Tourism in Kosovo: From Divisions to Digital Possibilities



Chapter 14. Ann-Kathrin McLean: Millennials, Transitional Memory and the Future of Holocaust Remembrance 



Chapter 15. Aija Van Der Steina, Maija Rozite, Inese Runce and Kaspars Strods: Between Revival of Memory and Dark Tourism: The Future of Holocaust-Related Sites in Latvia



Chapter 16. Marta Soligo: ‘Mirrors of Society’: Cemetery Tourism Futures 



Chapter 17. Janine Marriott: ‘Not the Right Sort of Visitors’: Future Challenges of Cemetery Tourism



Chapter 18. Allan Brodie: ‘Into the horrors of the gloomy jail’: Towards a Future of UK Prison Tourism and Penal Architecture 



Chapter 19. Brianna Wyatt: ‘Finding a Light in Dark Places’: Lighter Dark Tourism Futures



Chapter 20. Luisa Golz and Tony Johnston: Future of Dark Tourism Festivals: Technology and the Tourist Experience



Chapter 21. Robert S. Bristow, Alina Gross and Ian Jenkins: Future Dystopian Attractions: Benign Masochism in Dark Tourism



Chapter 22. Michael Brennan: Future Directions in Death Studies and Dark Tourism



Philip R. Stone: Afterword: Back to the Dark Tourism Future



References



Index