Turystyka śmierci jako zjawisko kulturowe
The death tourism as a cultural phenomenon

Summary/Abstract: Even though contemporary tourism is based on the idea of a pleasurable change, a leave from routine and everyday activities, the expectations of visitors to the sites of catastrophes and death are shaped according to different rules. These trips have been named by scholars of the phenomenon as another kind of tourism “dark tourism” or “thanatotourism.” Although the fascination with death seems to be nothing exceptional nor new in our culture, however treating death as a commodity designed for consumption seems to be a totally new aspect of it. The article aims at conceptualise this more and more common phenomenon. The author addresses some key problems of the visitors’ motivation and points to research problems and methods of the death tourism as a new social and cultural phenomenon.

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