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ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH
Volume 38, Issue 1, Pages 193-209Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2010.08.003
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dark tourism; Holocaust; education; location; authenticity
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Based on a study at Yad Vashem, the Shoah (Holocaust) memorial museum in Jerusalem, a new term-in populo-is proposed to describe dark tourism sites at a population and spiritual center of the people to whom a tragedy befell. Learning about the Shoah in Jerusalem oilers a different but equally authentic encounter with the subject as visits to sites in Europe. It is argued that a dichotomy between 'authentic' sites at the location of a tragedy and 'created' sites elsewhere is insufficient. Participants' evaluations of seminars for European teachers at Yad Vashem indicate that the location is an important aspect of a meaningful encounter with the subject. Implications for other cases of dark tourism at in papulo locations are discussed.
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