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Purpose – Grieving resulting from the death of a loved one or someone familiar is a painful process and individuals … play by exploring the types of messages following the death of a public figure, Michael Jackson, “the King of Pop”. Design …/methodology/approach – Content analysis was conducted using 50,000 tweets harvested from Twitter from the first 12 days after Michael Jackson's death …
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death, destruction and the ostensibly reprehensible”. This paper examines the nature, character and extent of dark marketing …
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excursion across Europe. Visiting a range of sites, from those associated with the Christian Cult of Death to the notable … geography of death to stimulate emotional reactions and configure individual and societal interactions with death. Finding three …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a typology of dark tourists through an investigation of people's motivations to visit burial grounds. This research extends Stone's Dark Tourism Spectrum and Seven Dark Suppliers framework by identifying nine types of dark tourists....
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Purpose – This paper views the growing popularity of death tourism which directs the confrontation with grief and … of this paper are to describe the emerging phenomenon of death tourism and situate it as a form of dark tourism, to … with how the trend of death tourism is potentially spreading to other countries beyond Europe. Design …
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daily lives, so we contemplate death in different ways in tourism praxis. The papers presented here stretch the boundaries …
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associated with death and disaster has gained significant attention with media imaginations and academic scholarship. However … the dark tourism concept, as well as its contribution to the broader social scientific study of tourism and death … death education and tourism studies collide and, as such, can offer potentially fruitful research avenues within the broad …
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responsibility of those in leading positions following death or injury to members of the workforce remains a live and problematic one …
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Develops and estimates efficiency and productivity measures in the US trucking and warehousing industry in the 48 contiguous states during the years 1994‐2000. The model, estimated via data envelopment analysis, accounts for both desirable outputs and undesirable outputs produced by a given...
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Purpose – This paper seeks to consider certain characteristics of the human mortality table, and the possibility that mortality rates are governed by an underlying natural law. Design/methodology/approach – After providing a brief overview of the mathematics of the mortality table, explores...
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