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2.5 Chapter Conclusion
the world-leading sites, but have great potential for future development.
Similarly, Slivková and Bucher (2017) highlight the importance and the
potential of special-interest tourism for the development in two post-
conflict target destinations within Croatia and Slovakia. This is relevant
from two points of view: (a) dark or warfare tourism should be presented
firmly in the context of special-interest tourism and (b) Croatia is treated
as a post-war area (state).²³
As we can see in the previous paragraph, the topic of warfare tourism in
the former Yugoslav area is a point of interest for scholars from different
parts of the world; notwithstanding Šuligoj’s statement at the beginning
of this sub-chapter, it can be concluded that this topic is not completely
unexplored. Investigating concrete examples with their specific cultural
background and tragic story is a common approach in dark tourism re-
search – generalisation due to specificity is therefore not always reason-
able (except exclusively within the case). This way, scholars produce a
kind of ‘academic mosaic’ within a unified dark topic. Within this work,
it is always necessary to see other perspectives and examples that may as-
sist in the investigation and thus in addressing some gaps in the existing
literature.
Based on definitions, typologies, limitations and other topics discussed
in this chapter, and the objectives and purpose of this study, the following
conclusions and directions were developed:
• in accordance with theoretical assumptions, it is necessary to inves-
tigate the attitude to or understanding of warfare tourism, past ex-
periences and its development in Istria;
• incidence of some deviant phenomena associated with warfare
tourism, e.g. militarisation, politicisation, will be further explored.
Namely, they are usually connected with a systematic preservation
of memory or amnesia (damnatio memoriae);
• members of local communities as the overlooked visitor group in
past surveys will be systematically involved in the research;
• although the ‘death system’ itself will not be a focus, its elements
need to be taken into account for further research, i.e. places, time,
and objects. Links to the past cannot be overlooked, nor can the re-
actions in the present time;
²³ Because this is not the purpose of the study, a comprehensive analysis of this segment in
the post-Yugoslav area has not been made.
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the world-leading sites, but have great potential for future development.
Similarly, Slivková and Bucher (2017) highlight the importance and the
potential of special-interest tourism for the development in two post-
conflict target destinations within Croatia and Slovakia. This is relevant
from two points of view: (a) dark or warfare tourism should be presented
firmly in the context of special-interest tourism and (b) Croatia is treated
as a post-war area (state).²³
As we can see in the previous paragraph, the topic of warfare tourism in
the former Yugoslav area is a point of interest for scholars from different
parts of the world; notwithstanding Šuligoj’s statement at the beginning
of this sub-chapter, it can be concluded that this topic is not completely
unexplored. Investigating concrete examples with their specific cultural
background and tragic story is a common approach in dark tourism re-
search – generalisation due to specificity is therefore not always reason-
able (except exclusively within the case). This way, scholars produce a
kind of ‘academic mosaic’ within a unified dark topic. Within this work,
it is always necessary to see other perspectives and examples that may as-
sist in the investigation and thus in addressing some gaps in the existing
literature.
Based on definitions, typologies, limitations and other topics discussed
in this chapter, and the objectives and purpose of this study, the following
conclusions and directions were developed:
• in accordance with theoretical assumptions, it is necessary to inves-
tigate the attitude to or understanding of warfare tourism, past ex-
periences and its development in Istria;
• incidence of some deviant phenomena associated with warfare
tourism, e.g. militarisation, politicisation, will be further explored.
Namely, they are usually connected with a systematic preservation
of memory or amnesia (damnatio memoriae);
• members of local communities as the overlooked visitor group in
past surveys will be systematically involved in the research;
• although the ‘death system’ itself will not be a focus, its elements
need to be taken into account for further research, i.e. places, time,
and objects. Links to the past cannot be overlooked, nor can the re-
actions in the present time;
²³ Because this is not the purpose of the study, a comprehensive analysis of this segment in
the post-Yugoslav area has not been made.
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