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- Title
Battlefield visitor motivations: explorations in the Great War town of Ieper, Belgium.
- Authors
Winter, Caroline
- 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.
- Subjects
IEPER (Belgium); BELGIUM; DARK tourism; MOTIVATION (Psychology); CULTURE &; tourism; PILGRIMS &; pilgrimages
- Publication
International Journal of Tourism Research, 2011, Vol 13, Issue 2, p164
- ISSN
1099-2340
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jtr.806