Since the launch of Tourism Geographies in 1999, annual international tourist arrivals have surged from 664 million to 1.4 billion, with greater numbers of domestic tourists traversing within borde...

Spatial unevenness in resource distribution and economic activity presents challenges for regional development, particularly in peripheral regions. Second-home development has emerged as a strategy...

The allure of the rural fringe for touristic activity is longstanding. The prominence of rural tourism was heightened during the pandemic of 2020–2023 as the rush to the countryside intensified. Th...

Through an interpretivist and hauntological approach, our study explores how self-guided ghost walks use ‘spectral-geographies’ to reconcile problematic colonial histories while simultaneously supp...

Ghosts, hauntings and the spectral are intrinsically linked to sites of dark tourism. Supernatural stories commonly emerge in places connected with tragedy, death and the macabre, forming spectral ...

This study asks how specters have made disaster sites enchanting and important places of dark tourism, resonating with the history of the site and reconciling its current existence. The research is...

In north China, memorial museums are often associated with the suffering of victims of the Japanese occupation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-1945). The Datong Coal Mine Massacre Site Me...

The spectral geography of the colonial legacy in Bristol is marked by a series of absences from official and tourist narratives about the city. The people and practices of the Atlantic slave trade ...

This paper explores the intersection of dark tourism and spectral geographies, offering a critical examination of how spaces of death, disaster, trauma, and painful memories are shaped by hauntings...

This paper uses a hauntological approach to examine the extent to which the present is haunted by the past. Specifically, it looks at playful indeterminate referentiality and the relationship betwe...

In recent decades, glaciers have become infamous symbols of climate change, and as they thaw and retreat, they leave behind haunted spaces favorable for the development of dark tourism practices. C...

Join us for the second edition of the GSTC Academic Symposium in Fiji before the GSTC2025 Conference.

Join us for the second edition of the GSTC Academic Symposium in Fiji before the GSTC2025 Conference.

Once upon a time, there was a federal government department that helped design and distribute tools for living the good life. What happened to that vision?

His statements reflect the views of his son-in-law and former senior advisor, Jared Kushner, who previously said that coastal real estate in Gaza has “priceless value” and pointed to Gaza’s potential ...

Attacks on cultural sites are acts of cultural erasure, born of the same eliminationist motives that also drive genocide.

Spokesperson for Volodymyr Zelenskiy denies WSJ claims and again accuses Russia of carrying out the sabotage

A gay bar. A bookstore. Fresh salt air. We could learn to preserve what matters most to people.