How to be a dark tourist: analysis of the tourist behavior through a domumentary series

Over the past few decades, dark tourism has become increasingly popular. The level of participation of the dark tourist within a dark site underlies the variety of experiences that can be produced, depending on the type of audience engagement. This study attempts to design the discourse of a perform...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Zerva, Konstantina
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Murcia
Repositorio:DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia
OAI Identifier:oai:digitum.um.es:10201/135045
Acesso em linha:https://doi.org/10.6018/turismo.571481
http://hdl.handle.net/10201/135045
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Dark tourism
Tourism performance
Documentary series
Netflix
Spectator
Actuación turística
Turismo oscuro
Documental
Espectador
CDU::3 - Ciencias sociales::37 - Educación. Enseñanza. Formación. Tiempo libre
Descrição
Resumo:Over the past few decades, dark tourism has become increasingly popular. The level of participation of the dark tourist within a dark site underlies the variety of experiences that can be produced, depending on the type of audience engagement. This study attempts to design the discourse of a performance-based typology of dark tourism, built on the rep-resentations of tourists’ participation within the Netflix documentary series Dark Tourist. As screen tourism can influence behavior patterns, a typology of spectator, spect-actor, and actor roles is presented