War as Tourism Attraction
in Mobility in History
Author:
Florian Wöltering
Florian Wöltering
RWTH Aachen University florian.woeltering@wiso.rwth-aachen.de
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The paper presents the state of research on war-related tourism. Changing ideas about why tourists choose to visit war museums and battlefields, and how those spaces have shifted, are presented. The piece makes it obvious that further research on the social relevance of war-related tourism is needed. An outline of the opportunities and limits of several alternative concepts - thanatourism, atrocity tourism and dark tourism - is given. Finally, the text ends by discussing the intersection of the history of mobility with war tourism scholarship.