[MENA Tourism Net] CfPs Special Issue Heritage and Dark Tourism
Isaac, Rami
Dear colleagues,
A reminds for the CfPs for the Special Issue, see below
Special Issue, Journal of Heritage Tourism
‘HERITAGE AND DARK TOURISM’
Guest editor: Rami K. Isaac
Centre for Sustainability, Tourism and Transport
Breda University of Applied Sciences
Dark tourism (Foley & Lennon, 1996) and thanatourism (Seaton, 1996) involve traveling to sites associated with death, atrocities and other manifestations of human suffering. Dark tourism is now a well-established research field in which scholars examine a diverse range of death and atrocities-related topics and tourist-experience studies. As a rigorous academic field, dark tourism is still relatively young. In spite of the recent increasing number of research papers on the topic, much of the literature remains supply-side focused, especially as regards terminology and definitions of dark tourism, which provide little clarity or consent on the core of this unique form of tourism (Ashworth & Isaac, 2015; Hartmann, 2014). Studies on dark tourism have tended to focus on three main angles: the demand side, the supply side, or sometimes taking a more holistic view, examining both demand and supply of darkness. Some studies have accentuated the diversity and variety of dark sites, focusing on defining and classifying dark tourism manifestations based on the attributes of the sites (Kang et al., 2012). Miles (2002) distinguishes between dark, darker and darkest sites, and Stone (2006) proposes a spectrum of darkness ranging from lightest to darkest. Visits to dark tourism locations have been theorised and studied under wider frameworks, such as heritage tourism (Poria, Butler, & Airey, 2003), dissonant heritage tourism (Tunbridge & Ashworth, 1996), unwanted heritage (Isaac & Budryte, 2015), and pilgrimage (Belhassen & Santos, 2006), and they have been scrutinized from an interpretative standpoint (Uzzell & Ballantyne, 1998). Calls for more visitor-oriented research have resulted in studies that focus on the question of tourist motivations to visit dark sites (Stone & Sharpley, 2008; Hyde & Harman, 2011). Only a handful of studies have examined onsite tourist experiences. Most research on the motivations and experiences of dark tourism does not adequately leverage empirical data but rather is so far based largely on conceptual frameworks (Isaac & Çakmak, 2014). Isaac and Çakmak (2014, p. 176) point out that “conceptualisation should be based upon the links between site attributes and reasons why tourists visit the site”.
This special issue aims to encourage and advance theoretical, conceptual, and empirical research on heritage and dark tourism. Some indicative but not exhaustive themes for papers in the context of Heritage and Dark Tourism are:
- Experience of emotions (positive and negative) at ‘dark’ sites (Ashworth & Isaac 2015; Buda et al., 2014; Nawijn et al., 2016)
- Mobile digital technologies and social media in ‘dark’ tourist experiences
- Innovation in the design of ‘dark’ tourist experiences
- Attributes of a ‘dark’ tourism site and motivations
- De-marketing visitor demand to ‘dark’ sites
Submission:
Abstracts of 300 words, which contribute to understanding Heritage and Dark Tourism, are required no later than July 1, 2019. Please submit your abstract to Dr. Rami K. Isaac: Isa...@buas.nl
Notification of outcome will be provided by July 10, 2019
Submission of full manuscripts February 28, 2020
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Dr Rami K. ISAAC
Senior Lecturer in Tourism
http://nhtv.academia.edu/RamiIsaac
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rami_Isaac
https://www.cstt.nl/Staff/Rami-Isaac/19
Latest book
Isaac, Cakmak & Butler (eds) (2019) Tourism and Hospitality in Conflict-ridden Destinations. London: Routledge
• Assistant Professor, Institute of Hotel Management and Tourism, Bethlehem University, Palestine, http://www.bethlehem.edu/academics/hotel/directory
• Vice President in-Between Conference, Research Committee 50, on International Tourism, The International Sociologist Association (ISA) (2018-2022) https://www.rc50tourism.org
•Treasury, Research Committee 50, on International Tourism, The International Sociologist Association (2018-2022)
• Former President Research Committee 50 (RC50) on International Tourism, The International Sociologist Association (ISA) (2014-2018), https://www.rc50tourism.org
• Regional Editor: Middle East: Tourism Planning & Development, http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=rthp21
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Subject: [MENA Tourism Net] Fwd: Call for Expressions of Interest for Book Chapters
Dear list members,
We are calling for EOI for book chapters on Contemporary Muslim Travel Cultures: Practices, complexities and emerging issues
Editors:
C. Michael Hall- University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Siamak Seyfi – Pantheon-Sorbonne University, France
S. Mostafa Rasoolimanesh, Taylor’s University, Malaysia
Key dates (subject to changes)
Abstract/ Proposal submission deadline: 20 July, 2019
Proposal acceptance notification: 5 August, 2019
Chapter submission deadline: 31 January, 2020
Submission Procedure
Interested authors should email their abstract (350-500 words) to Siamak Seyfi
(siamak...@etu.univ-paris1.fr &
siamak...@yahoo.com ) no later than
20 July 2019.
Please kindly find the attached file for more information
Best regards
Siamak
Siamak Seyfi,
Ph.D. candidate
Pantheon-Sorbonne University of Paris
EIREST Research Lab
(Interdisciplinary Research Group for Tourism Studies )
Cell: +33 783 82 61 23
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