Banalizing the Alterity: When Suffering Turns Attractive

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Author(s): Maximiliano E. Korstanje (University of Palermo, Argentina)and Lourdes Cisneros Mustelier (Universidad de la Habana, Cuba)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 19
Source title: Virtual Traumascapes and Exploring the Roots of Dark Tourism
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Maximiliano Korstanje (University of Palermo, Argentina)and Babu George (Fort Hays State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2750-3.ch010

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Management / Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Management

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This chapter discusses the problem of poverty as something finely integrated in dark tourism. Though originally, both concepts sound very distant, no less true is that dark tourism and slum tourism are inextricably intertwined. Throughout this chapter review, we placed a hot debate on the role of globalization as a chief agent oriented to connect dissimilar economies into an all-encompassing system. The question whether tourism should be considered ethical or not still remains open. In days of Thana-Capitalism the suffering pivoted as the main commodity not only that helps structuring social institutions, but the necessary mediator between lay-people and their states.

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