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Books by Rudi Hartmann

Research paper thumbnail of Stone, P., Hartmann, R., Seaton, T., Sharpley, R. and White, L. (eds.) (2018) The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies, 2018

This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of ‘dark tourism’, the contemporary... more This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of ‘dark tourism’, the contemporary commodification of death within international visitor economies. Shining a light on dark tourism and visitor sites of death or disaster allows us to better understand issues of global tourism mobilities, tourist experiences, the co-creation of touristic meaning, and ‘difficult heritage’ processes and practices.
Adopting multidisciplinary perspectives from authors representing every continent, the book combines ‘real-world’ viewpoints from both industry and the media with conceptual underpinning, and offers comprehensive and grounded perspectives of ‘heritage that hurts’. The handbook adopts a progressive and thematic approach, including critical accounts of dark tourism history, dark tourism philosophy and theory, dark tourism in society and culture, dark tourism and heritage landscapes, the ‘dark tourist’ experience, and the business of dark tourism.
The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies will appeal to students and scholars with an interest in aspects of memorialisation and morality in sociology, death studies, history, geography, cultural studies, philosophy, psychology, business management, museology and heritage tourism studies, politics, religious studies, and anthropology.

Papers by Rudi Hartmann

Research paper thumbnail of Holocaust Tourism

Encyclopedia of Tourism, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Landmark - Tourism

Encyclopedia of Tourism, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Disaster reduction, drought, and the mountain resort community

Research paper thumbnail of Tourism to the Anne Frank House

Research paper thumbnail of The Western Front: landscape, tourism and heritage

Current Issues in Tourism, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Tourism to the Memorial Site and Museum of the Former Concentration Camp

Tourism Recreation Research, 1989

After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 the first concentration camp was established near the cit... more After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 the first concentration camp was established near the city of Dachau. During its 12 years of existence more than 200,000 prisoners were kept there under dehumanizing conditions; 31,951 deaths were registered. After 1915 the concentration camp became a memorial site and museum which was opened to the public in 1965. In the last few years the memorial site and museum at the former Dachau concentration camp has attracted more than 900,000 visitors annually. The majority of the visitors are from foreign countries. However, the number of German visitors and their percentage of all visitors has increased considerably over the last two decades and amounts to 350,000 (or 40% of all visitors). Four major motives for visiting the former concentration camp grounds, its several memorials and a museum with archives, can be distinguished: (1) personal motives (2) political motives (3) historical and educational motives (4) humanitarian motives. In the commemoration of the Holocau...

Research paper thumbnail of Tourism and the Seasonality

Tourism Recreation Research, 1986

This paper examines various aspects of seasonality in recreational travel and tourism. There is a... more This paper examines various aspects of seasonality in recreational travel and tourism. There is an institutionalised and a natural seasonality, which both affect tourism. Since tourist seasonality ...

Research paper thumbnail of On the Formation of Biographies in Space-Time Environments

Economic Geography, 1981

... On the formation of biographies in space-time environments. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Aut... more ... On the formation of biographies in space-time environments. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Mêartensson, Solveig. PUBLISHER: Royal University of Lund, Dept. of Geography (Lund). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1979. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 9140047202 [pbk]). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Mountain resort development: Proceedings of the Vail Conference, Vail, Colorado, April 18-21, 1991

Research paper thumbnail of Mountain Resort Planning and Development in an Era of Globalization

Annals of Tourism Research, 2007

Abstract This book consists of 19 chapters organized under the following themes:(1) globalization... more Abstract This book consists of 19 chapters organized under the following themes:(1) globalization, tourism and mountain resort destinations;(2) the challenge of sustainability in the face of growth;(3) resort development for whom?;(4) stewardship of the mountain ...

Research paper thumbnail of Zentralamerika und der Ferne Karibische Westen: Konjunkturen, Krisen und Konflikte 1504-1984

Geographical Review, 1986

Research paper thumbnail of Heritage and Economy

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Downstream and down-valley: essential components and directions of growth and change in the sprawling resort landscapes of the Rocky Mountain West

Research paper thumbnail of Tourism to Memorial Sites of the Holocaust

The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies, 2018

Few historical periods in human history are so fatally associated with the destruction of human l... more Few historical periods in human history are so fatally associated with the destruction of human lives as Hitler’s ‘Third Reich’. Historic places honouring the victims of National Socialistic Germany form a wide and expanding network of heritage sites in Europe. Most of the places where the horrific events occurred during 1933–1945 have been broadly denoted as Holocaust memorial sites in the remembrance of the six million Jews who died, and the many other ethnic, religious, social, and political groups which were subjected to persecution. This chapter, therefore, reconstructs the evolution of this memorial landscape. It is important to understand that not only has the memorial landscape been substantially expanded and changed over the years but also the approaches in the study of these sites and their management practices. Ultimately, this chapter gives an overview of the various traditions of research in this field.

Research paper thumbnail of Climate change: what are the implications for North America's ski areas?

Research paper thumbnail of Must global trump local: concluding thoughts on resort planning in the global era

Research paper thumbnail of The evolving movement toward global stewardship of mountain places

Research paper thumbnail of Vail: explaining growth dynamics of a Colorado Ski Resort Town

International Journal of Tourism Sciences, 2018

Vail Valley with two large ski areas, Vail and Beaver Creek, has become one of the most highly re... more Vail Valley with two large ski areas, Vail and Beaver Creek, has become one of the most highly recognized tourist destination areas in Colorado. Vail and Beaver were awarded to host the World Alpine Ski Championships in 1989, 1999 and 2015. Vail's transformation from a small attractive ski area with an alpine inspired village to an upscale four-season resort environment along an urbanized corridor of 50 miles (70 km) is shown with comparative data. In a close-up section, the growth and change of The Town of Vail is reconstructed from the 1960s to 2010. The tourist area life cycle model, the path metaphor in evolutionary economic geography and the concept of resilience are applied to explaining the growth dynamics in Vail Valley. Vail Resorts as a leading agent of change in the further globalization of the ski resort industry has at last embraced sustainability.

Research paper thumbnail of Zielorte des Holocaust- Tourismus im Wandel die KZ-Gedenkstätte in Dachau, die Gedenkstätte in Weimar-Buchenwald und das AnneFrank-Haus in Amsterdam

Geographie der Freizeit und des Tourismus: Bilanz und Ausblick, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Stone, P., Hartmann, R., Seaton, T., Sharpley, R. and White, L. (eds.) (2018) The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies, 2018

This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of ‘dark tourism’, the contemporary... more This handbook is the definitive reference text for the study of ‘dark tourism’, the contemporary commodification of death within international visitor economies. Shining a light on dark tourism and visitor sites of death or disaster allows us to better understand issues of global tourism mobilities, tourist experiences, the co-creation of touristic meaning, and ‘difficult heritage’ processes and practices.
Adopting multidisciplinary perspectives from authors representing every continent, the book combines ‘real-world’ viewpoints from both industry and the media with conceptual underpinning, and offers comprehensive and grounded perspectives of ‘heritage that hurts’. The handbook adopts a progressive and thematic approach, including critical accounts of dark tourism history, dark tourism philosophy and theory, dark tourism in society and culture, dark tourism and heritage landscapes, the ‘dark tourist’ experience, and the business of dark tourism.
The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies will appeal to students and scholars with an interest in aspects of memorialisation and morality in sociology, death studies, history, geography, cultural studies, philosophy, psychology, business management, museology and heritage tourism studies, politics, religious studies, and anthropology.

Research paper thumbnail of Holocaust Tourism

Encyclopedia of Tourism, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of Landmark - Tourism

Encyclopedia of Tourism, 2022

Research paper thumbnail of Disaster reduction, drought, and the mountain resort community

Research paper thumbnail of Tourism to the Anne Frank House

Research paper thumbnail of The Western Front: landscape, tourism and heritage

Current Issues in Tourism, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Tourism to the Memorial Site and Museum of the Former Concentration Camp

Tourism Recreation Research, 1989

After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 the first concentration camp was established near the cit... more After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 the first concentration camp was established near the city of Dachau. During its 12 years of existence more than 200,000 prisoners were kept there under dehumanizing conditions; 31,951 deaths were registered. After 1915 the concentration camp became a memorial site and museum which was opened to the public in 1965. In the last few years the memorial site and museum at the former Dachau concentration camp has attracted more than 900,000 visitors annually. The majority of the visitors are from foreign countries. However, the number of German visitors and their percentage of all visitors has increased considerably over the last two decades and amounts to 350,000 (or 40% of all visitors). Four major motives for visiting the former concentration camp grounds, its several memorials and a museum with archives, can be distinguished: (1) personal motives (2) political motives (3) historical and educational motives (4) humanitarian motives. In the commemoration of the Holocau...

Research paper thumbnail of Tourism and the Seasonality

Tourism Recreation Research, 1986

This paper examines various aspects of seasonality in recreational travel and tourism. There is a... more This paper examines various aspects of seasonality in recreational travel and tourism. There is an institutionalised and a natural seasonality, which both affect tourism. Since tourist seasonality ...

Research paper thumbnail of On the Formation of Biographies in Space-Time Environments

Economic Geography, 1981

... On the formation of biographies in space-time environments. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Aut... more ... On the formation of biographies in space-time environments. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Mêartensson, Solveig. PUBLISHER: Royal University of Lund, Dept. of Geography (Lund). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1979. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 9140047202 [pbk]). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Mountain resort development: Proceedings of the Vail Conference, Vail, Colorado, April 18-21, 1991

Research paper thumbnail of Mountain Resort Planning and Development in an Era of Globalization

Annals of Tourism Research, 2007

Abstract This book consists of 19 chapters organized under the following themes:(1) globalization... more Abstract This book consists of 19 chapters organized under the following themes:(1) globalization, tourism and mountain resort destinations;(2) the challenge of sustainability in the face of growth;(3) resort development for whom?;(4) stewardship of the mountain ...

Research paper thumbnail of Zentralamerika und der Ferne Karibische Westen: Konjunkturen, Krisen und Konflikte 1504-1984

Geographical Review, 1986

Research paper thumbnail of Heritage and Economy

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Downstream and down-valley: essential components and directions of growth and change in the sprawling resort landscapes of the Rocky Mountain West

Research paper thumbnail of Tourism to Memorial Sites of the Holocaust

The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies, 2018

Few historical periods in human history are so fatally associated with the destruction of human l... more Few historical periods in human history are so fatally associated with the destruction of human lives as Hitler’s ‘Third Reich’. Historic places honouring the victims of National Socialistic Germany form a wide and expanding network of heritage sites in Europe. Most of the places where the horrific events occurred during 1933–1945 have been broadly denoted as Holocaust memorial sites in the remembrance of the six million Jews who died, and the many other ethnic, religious, social, and political groups which were subjected to persecution. This chapter, therefore, reconstructs the evolution of this memorial landscape. It is important to understand that not only has the memorial landscape been substantially expanded and changed over the years but also the approaches in the study of these sites and their management practices. Ultimately, this chapter gives an overview of the various traditions of research in this field.

Research paper thumbnail of Climate change: what are the implications for North America's ski areas?

Research paper thumbnail of Must global trump local: concluding thoughts on resort planning in the global era

Research paper thumbnail of The evolving movement toward global stewardship of mountain places

Research paper thumbnail of Vail: explaining growth dynamics of a Colorado Ski Resort Town

International Journal of Tourism Sciences, 2018

Vail Valley with two large ski areas, Vail and Beaver Creek, has become one of the most highly re... more Vail Valley with two large ski areas, Vail and Beaver Creek, has become one of the most highly recognized tourist destination areas in Colorado. Vail and Beaver were awarded to host the World Alpine Ski Championships in 1989, 1999 and 2015. Vail's transformation from a small attractive ski area with an alpine inspired village to an upscale four-season resort environment along an urbanized corridor of 50 miles (70 km) is shown with comparative data. In a close-up section, the growth and change of The Town of Vail is reconstructed from the 1960s to 2010. The tourist area life cycle model, the path metaphor in evolutionary economic geography and the concept of resilience are applied to explaining the growth dynamics in Vail Valley. Vail Resorts as a leading agent of change in the further globalization of the ski resort industry has at last embraced sustainability.

Research paper thumbnail of Zielorte des Holocaust- Tourismus im Wandel die KZ-Gedenkstätte in Dachau, die Gedenkstätte in Weimar-Buchenwald und das AnneFrank-Haus in Amsterdam

Geographie der Freizeit und des Tourismus: Bilanz und Ausblick, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Combining field methods in tourism research

Annals of Tourism Research, 1988

Too often interviewing forms the only method of data collection in recreation and tourism researc... more Too often interviewing forms the only method of data collection in recreation and tourism research. It is maintained here that the research could profit from a combination and integration of different field methods and techniques. This is shown in the case of the European trips of young American and Canadian tourists. In this study, these travelers were mterxriewed, observed, and counted in various ways. The information gained through the different field methods proved to be complementary in nature and allowed counterchecks. The findings were useful both on a macroand micro-level. A comparison of the methods introduced disclosed major advantages and serious shortcomings in each case. Participant observation proved to be a powerful heuristic tool; however, its uses also posed ethical questions.