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Reviews
The public significance in publishing the book is its exceptional im-
portance for the academic community and the general public. The book
represents an important contribution to the existing insufficient scien-
tific and professional literature that researches dark tourism in ethnically
mixed areas. The book provides an overview of left and right political
events (e.g. Catholic Masses and anti-fascist commemorations) that are
visited by both tourists and locals. This is an important contribution to
the lack of literature that considers both the left and right perspective.
This is the first work in the national framework that analyses in de-
tail cross-border dark tourism in the most recognisable tourist region of
Croatia and Slovenia, despite open border issues in Istria. The book is of
international importance because it gives a successful overview of cross-
border cooperation, although it is a region that had many problems in
the past. The book points out how tourism can contribute to coexistence
in an area where problems still exist. The topic is thus relevant for some
other regions with a difficult past, e.g. Alsace, Northern Ireland, Kosovo.
The book Dark Shades of Istria: Memorial Practices and Their Dark
Tourism Implications fills a gap in the existing literature and makes a sci-
entific and social contribution in the field of dark tourism research. The
book entirely satisfies all the characteristics of the content and method-
ological elements for the classification of works in the category of scien-
tific monograph.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zrinka Zadel
279
The public significance in publishing the book is its exceptional im-
portance for the academic community and the general public. The book
represents an important contribution to the existing insufficient scien-
tific and professional literature that researches dark tourism in ethnically
mixed areas. The book provides an overview of left and right political
events (e.g. Catholic Masses and anti-fascist commemorations) that are
visited by both tourists and locals. This is an important contribution to
the lack of literature that considers both the left and right perspective.
This is the first work in the national framework that analyses in de-
tail cross-border dark tourism in the most recognisable tourist region of
Croatia and Slovenia, despite open border issues in Istria. The book is of
international importance because it gives a successful overview of cross-
border cooperation, although it is a region that had many problems in
the past. The book points out how tourism can contribute to coexistence
in an area where problems still exist. The topic is thus relevant for some
other regions with a difficult past, e.g. Alsace, Northern Ireland, Kosovo.
The book Dark Shades of Istria: Memorial Practices and Their Dark
Tourism Implications fills a gap in the existing literature and makes a sci-
entific and social contribution in the field of dark tourism research. The
book entirely satisfies all the characteristics of the content and method-
ological elements for the classification of works in the category of scien-
tific monograph.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zrinka Zadel
279
