Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the papers in this Special Issue of IJCTHR on dark tourism. These … papers take either a demand‐side, supply‐side, or integrated demand‐and‐supply side perspective to understanding dark tourism … daily lives, so we contemplate death in different ways in tourism praxis. The papers presented here stretch the boundaries …

Purpose – Serious leisure and tourism experiences are important to the motorcycle subculture and form the basis for one … subculture of consumption. This paper aims to further the understanding of motorcycle tourism demand generators so that a brand … the open-end responses from motorcycle tourist survey data to discover emergent trends in motorcycle tourism and compare …

attractiveness of hotels, its restaurants and destination on the whole. This research was presented to the Tourism Committee of St …

socio-cultural aspects of tourism along with recent technological changes. It endeavours to develop a framework to …/methodology/approach – Unlike the orthodoxy in tourism research, tourism phenomenon is approached from a wider social science perspective. To cast … frameworks in tourism literature. Seminal articles, cornerstones of DI studies, are critically discussed in this paper. While …

Purpose – Commonly referred to as dark tourism or thanatourism, the act of touristic travel to sites of or sites …, dark tourism as a field of study is still very much in its infancy. Moreover, questions remain of the academic origins of … the dark tourism concept, as well as its contribution to the broader social scientific study of tourism and death …

dark tourism in places of socio‐political danger, thus expanding psychoanalytic understandings of those who travel to a … reveals that tourism, in its widest sense, can be experienced as “dark” through the consumption and performance of danger …. This finding moves beyond the examination of dark tourism merely as “tourist products”, or that frame a particular moment …