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2.3 Dark Tourism and the Death System
Supporting +
institutions
+
+ Intermediaries Tourist + – Environment
+ flows
+
+ +
+
Tourism Tourism + Mass
infrastructure market + tourism
Quality of –
tourism area +
+ Service +
quality
Figure 2.3 Causal Loop Diagram of Interdependent Tourism System Elements
(the sign (+) indicates a positive relation to the cause, while the sign (–)
means the complete opposite; adapted from Jere Jakulin, 2017, p. 212)
tle evidence of an interest in death. Scholars, according to their focus,
found that visitors have other motives, i.e. learning and understanding,
or searching for connection and empathy, although all are indirectly re-
lated to death – see also Biran et al. (2011). Does that mean that death
itself will be merely in the background of the dark tourism system? The
simple answer is yes (Šuligoj & De Luca, 2019). In his past surveys, Light
(2017, p. 295) found that local residents are overlooked as a visitor group,
even though death may have a very different meaning to them compared
to the one tourists attach to it. Moreover, the people whose stories are
represented at dark tourism sites/events have been largely neglected.¹²
A considerably different (or special in some way) example of the death
system, is the dance of the death (danse macabre). It is in fact (Encyclo-
pedia Britannica, 2008):¹³
[a] medieval allegorical concept of the all-conquering and equaliz-
ing power of death [. . .]. Strictly speaking, it is a literary or pictorial
representation of a procession or dance of both living and dead fig-
¹² More can be found also in Lemelin et al. (2013).
¹³ More can be found in Lenković (2018) and Vignjević (2006; 2015).
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Supporting +
institutions
+
+ Intermediaries Tourist + – Environment
+ flows
+
+ +
+
Tourism Tourism + Mass
infrastructure market + tourism
Quality of –
tourism area +
+ Service +
quality
Figure 2.3 Causal Loop Diagram of Interdependent Tourism System Elements
(the sign (+) indicates a positive relation to the cause, while the sign (–)
means the complete opposite; adapted from Jere Jakulin, 2017, p. 212)
tle evidence of an interest in death. Scholars, according to their focus,
found that visitors have other motives, i.e. learning and understanding,
or searching for connection and empathy, although all are indirectly re-
lated to death – see also Biran et al. (2011). Does that mean that death
itself will be merely in the background of the dark tourism system? The
simple answer is yes (Šuligoj & De Luca, 2019). In his past surveys, Light
(2017, p. 295) found that local residents are overlooked as a visitor group,
even though death may have a very different meaning to them compared
to the one tourists attach to it. Moreover, the people whose stories are
represented at dark tourism sites/events have been largely neglected.¹²
A considerably different (or special in some way) example of the death
system, is the dance of the death (danse macabre). It is in fact (Encyclo-
pedia Britannica, 2008):¹³
[a] medieval allegorical concept of the all-conquering and equaliz-
ing power of death [. . .]. Strictly speaking, it is a literary or pictorial
representation of a procession or dance of both living and dead fig-
¹² More can be found also in Lemelin et al. (2013).
¹³ More can be found in Lenković (2018) and Vignjević (2006; 2015).
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