Naslov
MEMORIAL TOURISM IN THE CITY OF VUKOVAR

Autori
Mrvica Mađarac, Sandra

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Economic and Social Development / Tsiring, Diana et al. - Chelyabinsk : University North, Chelyabinsk State University, 2020, 332-341

Skup
50th International Scientific Conference on Economic and Social Development

Mjesto i datum
Čeljabinsk, Ruska Federacija, 13.02.2020. - 14.02.2020

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Memorial tourism, City of Vukovar, The Vukovar Nocturne, tourism market
(City of Vukovar, The Vukovar Nocturne, tourism market)

Sažetak
As one of the more specific forms of tourism during the recent years is the appearance of the attractive dark tourism. Dark tourism includes tours of places of torment and death, places of crime activities and also the places where genocide has occurred. The most famous destinations of this type of tourism are: Chernobyl, Auschwitz, the streets of Belfast, Cambodian death fields, Ground Zero, the ruins of the New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and Budapest Museum of Terror. Memorial tourism constitutes part of a dark tourism and the main motives of its influence are education, remembrance and encouraging curiosity with respect to the past historical events. Because of the suffering in the Croatian War of Independence, the City of Vukovar has memorial sites that have contributed to the whole - The Vukovar Nocturne (Vukovar Hospital, Memorial Centre Ovčara, Ovčara mass gravesite, Memorial Cemetery of the casualties of the Croatian War of Independence, Memorial Centre of the Croatian War of Independence, Memorial House of Croatian defenders on Trpinjska road, Central Cross at the mouth of the river Vuka in the river Danube). The goal of this paper is to determine the tourist offer and demand for the Memorial tourism in the City of Vukovar and also the guidelines for its further development are also suggested.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija

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