- Title
- Battlefield visitor motivations: Explorations in the Great War town of Ieper, Belgium
- Creator
- Winter, Caroline
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/35858
- Identifier
- vital:3904
- Identifier
- ISSN:1099-2340
- Abstract
- In this study a quantitative method was used to measure the motivations for education, holiday and remembrance for an international sample of visitors to the Great War town of Ieper in Belgium. Three clusters could be formed based upon different structure and intensity of their motivations. A small number of visitors could be identified as pilgrims, while the remainder were tourists, and they evidenced most of the characteristics of the pilgrims. The theory of thanatourism provides a framework through which the motivations and experiences of battlefield tourists for remembrance and education as well as leisure can be better understood. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Relation
- International Journal of Tourism Research Vol. 13, no. 2 (2011), p. 164-176
- Rights
- Copyright Wiley
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Education; Great War; Leper; Motivation; Pilgrimage; Thanatourism; Cultural heritage; International tourism; Tourist behavior; War; Belgium; West Flanders; Ypres
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