Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Contributors ix
4. Preface: Dark Tourism Futures: Thoughts, Ideas, Scenarios xvii
5. 1 Vertopia: The Future of Dark Tourism Places and Our Digital Dead 1
6. 2 Virtual Afterlife: Dark Tourism in the Hereafter 27
7. 3 From ‘Bucket List’ to ‘Afterlist’: (Dark) Tourism for the Afterlife 38
8. 4 ‘Beyond Human’: Dark Tourism, Robots and Futurology 50
9. 5 The Future of Technology and Dark Tourism Experiences 61
10. 6 Bridging Virtual Reality and Dark Heritage 77
11. 7 ‘Virtual Monument Wars’: The Digital Future of Difficult Heritage 90
12. 8 Language as a Mediator: Commodifying Future Dark Tourism 103
13. 9 ‘McDeath’ – A Future of Dark Travel and End of Life Palliative Care 115
14. 10 Enlightening Dark Tourism Horizons in a Post-Apocalyptic Arctic: A Geopoetic Approach 129
15. 11 ‘Shrines and Rites of Passage’: Toward a Future of Dark Tourism Chronicles 138
16. 12 Survivor Voices and Disaster Education: Future Commemoration and Remembrance at Dark Tourism Sites 149
17. 13 Future of Dark Tourism in Kosovo: From Divisions to Digital Possibilities 162
18. 14 Millennials, Transitional Memory and the Future of Holocaust Remembrance 176
19. 15 Between Revival of Memory and Dark Tourism: The Future of Holocaust-Related Sites in Latvia 187
20. 16 ‘Mirrors of Society’: Cemetery Tourism Futures 198
21. 17 ‘Not the Right Sort of Visitors’: Future Challenges of Cemetery Tourism 211
22. 18 ‘Into the horrors of the gloomy jail’: Towards a Future of UK Prison Tourism and Penal Architecture 224
23. 19 ‘Finding a Light in Dark Places’: Lighter Dark Tourism Futures 243
24. 20 Future of Dark Tourism Festivals: Technology and the Tourist Experience 255
25. 21 Future Dystopian Attractions: Benign Masochism in Dark Tourism 265
26. 22 Future Directions in Death Studies and Dark Tourism 276
27. Afterword: Back to the Dark Tourism Future 290
28. References 295
29. Index 343