Young tourists’ experiences at dark tourism sites: Towards a conceptual framework

IF 3.3 4区 管理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM
M. M. Kerr, P. Stone, Rebecca H. Price
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Abstract

While dark tourism aimed at adults reminds them of past tragic fights, faults and follies, thousands of children and youth also consume inherent memorial messages at dark tourism sites. This paper addresses these unnoticed childhood encounters, about which scholarly discourse remains conspicuously silent. At present, dark tourism research focuses almost exclusively on adults and does not adequately explain young tourists’ experiences. How children experience dark tourism sites has much to do with their understanding of death. Because younger children may not possess an adult-like knowledge of death, they are unable to experience a site as dark. Other theoretical disparities include children’s limited agency in choosing their destinations and their unique and often playful exploration of dark places. To address the inadequacy of current dark tourism conceptualisations, we propose a new framework to encourage scholarly interrogation of children’s experiences at dark tourism sites. Drawing from multiple sources including archival studies and original research with youth, we offer a rationale for considering four major, intersecting influences on a young tourist’s experience: understanding of death, visit preparation (at home or in school), site and interpretation features and dynamics of the specific visit (e.g. group membership, norms and itinerary). Ultimately, this paper uncovers potential research avenues to bring children’s perspectives and experiences to the core of dark tourism research.
年轻游客在黑暗旅游景点的体验:走向一个概念框架
虽然针对成年人的黑暗旅游让他们想起了过去的悲惨战斗、错误和愚蠢行为,但成千上万的儿童和青年也在黑暗旅游景点消费固有的纪念信息。本文讨论了这些未被注意到的童年遭遇,学术界对这些遭遇保持着明显的沉默。目前,黑暗旅游研究几乎只关注成年人,并没有充分解释年轻游客的经历。孩子们如何体验黑暗的旅游景点与他们对死亡的理解有很大关系。因为年龄较小的孩子可能没有成年人那样的死亡知识,他们无法体验到如此黑暗的场所。其他理论上的差异包括儿童在选择目的地方面的有限能动性,以及他们对黑暗地方的独特且经常是有趣的探索。为了解决当前黑暗旅游概念的不足,我们提出了一个新的框架,鼓励对儿童在黑暗旅游景点的经历进行学术探究。我们从档案研究和对年轻人的原始研究等多个来源出发,为考虑对年轻游客体验的四大交叉影响提供了理由:对死亡的理解、参观准备(在家或学校)、地点和解释特征以及特定参观的动态(如团体成员、规范和行程)。最终,本文揭示了潜在的研究途径,将儿童的视角和体验纳入黑暗旅游研究的核心。
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Tourist Studies
Tourist Studies HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-
CiteScore
6.90
自引率
4.20%
发文量
13
期刊介绍: Tourist Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal providing a platform for the development of critical perspectives on the nature of tourism as a social phenomenon through a qualitative lens. Theoretical and multi-disciplinary. Tourist Studies provides a critical social science approach to the study of the tourist and the structures which influence tourist behaviour and the production and reproduction of tourism. The journal examines the relationship between tourism and related fields of social inquiry. Tourism and tourist styles consumption are not only emblematic of many features of contemporary social change, such as mobility, restlessness, the search for authenticity and escape, but they are increasingly central to economic restructuring, globalization, the sociology of consumption and the aestheticization of everyday life. Tourist Studies analyzes these features of tourism from a multi-disciplinary perspective and seeks to evaluate, compare and integrate approaches to tourism from sociology, socio-psychology, leisure studies, cultural studies, geography and anthropology. Global Perspective. Tourist Studies takes a global perspective of tourism, widening and challenging the established views of tourism presented in current periodical literature. Tourist Studies includes: Theoretical analysis with a firm grounding in contemporary problems and issues in tourism studies, qualitative analyses of tourism and the tourist experience, reviews linking theory and policy, interviews with scholars at the forefront of their fields, review essays on particular fields or issues in the study of tourism, review of key texts, publications and visual media relating to tourism studies, and notes on conferences and other events of topical interest to the field of tourism studies.
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