...Avital Birna; Kenneth F. Hyde; Tony Johnston Purpose In 1867, the author Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, undertook a great pleasure excursion across Europe. Visiting a range of sites, from those associated with the Christian Cult of Death to the notable cultural heritage...

... Tourist Spectrum. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Tourism Death Burial Motivation (psychology) Burial ground Cemetery Graveyard Dark tourism spectrum Visitation to sites associated with death and suffering is of significance in the tourism industry. The phenomenon, known...

... in the Special Issue. Findings Just as we contemplate our mortality in different ways in our daily lives, so we contemplate death in different ways in tourism praxis. The papers presented here stretch the boundaries of the current definition of dark tourism. We move beyond a discussion of classifications...

...Avital Biran; Kenneth F. Hyde; Philip Stone Purpose Commonly referred to as dark tourism or thanatourism, the act of touristic travel to sites of or sites associated with death and disaster has gained significant attention with media imaginations and academic scholarship. However...

...Avital Biran; Kenneth Hyde; DeMond Shondell Miller; Christopher Gonzalez Purpose This paper views the growing popularity of death tourism which directs the confrontation with grief and mortality with the expressed purpose of orchestrating travel that culminates in assistance to end one's life...