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DARK TOURISM MOTIVATIONS: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE MOTIVATIONS OF VISITORS TO SITES ASSOCIATED WITH DARK TOURISM. NEIL ROBINSON Salford Business School College of Business and Law University of Salford, Salford, UK Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, September 2015.
This dissertation encompasses six chapters devising of an introduction to the study, a literature review regarding dark tourism and visitor motivations, the methodology incorporated within the study, with chapter four then illustrating the results of the research.
Dark tourism is a special type of tourism business which doesn't appeal to everyone but has an important role in delivering information and bringing the past to present. According to the quantitative survey in the House of Terror, the strongest motivat-.
The empirical results show that the higher Dark Tourism motivation could enhance the visitors' environmental attitudes towards Dark relics and further affect the acquired benefits of experience.
As a commodified, synthetic site of death and atrocity, the museum fits the definitions of a dark tourism site as established by lead academics. Therefore, by asking visitors to the museum what motivated them to the site, the results will hopefully give some acumen into the wants and needs of certain stakeholders.
Thanatourism is a concept which strongly relates to dark tourism and was introduced in the literature in the same year as dark tourism. Thanatourism entails the visiting of locations associated with death and suffering, where visitors want to symbolically experience a painful death.
Dark tourism motivations: an investigation into the motivations of visitors to sites associated with dark tourism Robinson, N 2015, Dark tourism motivations: an investigation into the motivations of visitors to sites associated with dark tourism, PhD thesis, University of Salford.
Due to the fact that dark tourism is a growing form of tourism, it is necessary to understand why people are motivated to visit places where other people have suffered. Aims of the Bachelor Thesis The purpose of this study is to identify the motives of visitors visiting former battlefields where historically important battles have been fought.
Motivation in tourism will be also discussed. The functional part of this thesis includes designing and implementing a customer questionnaire for the House of Terror museum. Dark tourism is a special type of tourism business which doesn't appeal to everyone but has an important role in delivering information and bringing the past to present.
The aim of this study was to understand motivations to visit dark tourism sites, particularly, in South Africaand generally internationally. Dark tourism or tourism to places associated with death, pain and suffering is relatively new and under researched. Although dark tourism literature is growing, there was still some uncertainty in academic.
Dark tourism scholarship would benefit from more work that seeks novel constructs, insights and new theory about tourism motivations that generalize beyond subcultural context and specific heritage-related factors. The study of dark tourism motivations is still in its early stages. This particular study is but one example in a vast arena.
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Dark Tourism is a niche underserved market without identified needs, which is an opportunity to create a targeted marketing campaign in order to properly address the needs of these tourists and provide them with the destinations and experiences they are looking for.
