Cimiteri e Turismo. Potenzialità e Valorizzazione di un fenomeno in crescita

Donatella Privitera

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1602/6475

Authors

Donatella Privitera University of Catania
Donatella Privitera is an Associate Professor at University of Catania. At present, she is teaching economic geography and implication with tourism and regional development. Research and publication interests include sustainable cities; green economy; e-tourism; transport geography.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/6475

Keywords:

Death, Szczecin, Cultural heritage, Black tourism, Case study

Abstract

Tourism in cemeteries is a relatively new segment of interest, inserted in the category of so-called dark tourism. It’s connected to the theme of death, suffering and pain, or to the category of religious tourism as a pilgrimage to a place of worship. It consists in visiting the cemeteries and burial sites, as considered a source of cultural and therefore tourist attraction. The case study focuses on the cemetery in Szczecin, in the territory of Poland, as an opportunity to study the identification of forms of development and promotion of cemetery as well cultural and tourist attraction.

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