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==Examples of Disaster tourism== |
==Examples of Disaster tourism== |
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===Greater New Orleans area after Hurricane Katrina=== |
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Disaster tourism took hold in the [[New Orleans|Greater New Orleans area]] in the aftermath of [[Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans|Hurricane Katrina]].{{citation needed|date=May 2016}} |
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Some local residents have criticized these tours as [[Business ethics|unethical]], because the tour companies are profiting from the misery of their [[Community|communities]] and [[Family|families]]. The [[United States Army Corps of Engineers|Army Corps of Engineers]] has noted that [[traffic]] from [[Bus|tour buses]] and other [[Automobile|tourist vehicles]] have interfered with the movement of trucks and [[Engineering vehicle|other cleanup equipment]] on single-lane [[Suburb|residential roads]]. Furthermore, during the first six months after the storm, most of these neighborhoods lacked [[Electric Utility|electricity]], [[Telephone|phone access]], [[Traffic sign|street signs]], or access to [[Emergency medical services|emergency medical]] or [[Police|police assistance]]. Simply traveling to these neighborhoods was hazardous. Some residents of the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard parishes were less than welcoming to tour buses in their neighborhoods and sometimes outright hostile.{{citation needed|date=May 2016}} |
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Communities such as [[Gentilly, New Orleans|Gentilly]] and [[Lakeview, New Orleans|Lakeview]], along the [[17th Street Canal]], have welcomed organized tour groups as a means to [[Publicity|publicize]] the scale of the destruction and attract more aid to the city. Much of the [[Reconstruction of New Orleans|recovery effort in the New Orleans]] relies on out-of-state [[Volunteering|volunteer]]s and [[donation]]s. Numerous [[non-profit organizations]], including [[Habitat for Humanity International]] and [[Catholic Charities]], have converged on the city to gut and [[Construction#Residential construction|rebuild]] [[House|homes]]. There is also a movement by local residents to bring [[United States Congress|congressmen]] and other national leaders to the city and view the damage in person, since recovery efforts have been hampered by the failure of many homeowners and businesses to receive claims from their [[insurance|insurance providers]].{{citation needed|date=May 2016}} |
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===2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull=== |
===2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull=== |
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Revision as of 18:30, 29 December 2017
Disaster tourism is the act of traveling to a disaster area for pleasure, usually out of curiosity.
Origins of Disaster tourism
Disaster Tourism is used for leisure travels to zones whipped by natural disasters or traumatic events known as "traumascapes".[1] Some scholars argue that these sites offers a message to visitors and tourists in order for them to interpret their own life.[2] Disaster tourism offers a pedagogical instrument to community to accelerate the time in post recovery process.[3][4] Rodanthi Tzanelli, lecturer at University of Leeds called the attention to the needs to articulate trans-disciplinary research to understand Thana Tourism or Disaster Tourism.[5]
R. Tzanelli explores the role of thanaptosis in the media and film-industries. She says that the success of globalization depends on the economy of imagination, where the elite elaborates biased or singled out explanations of disasters in order to keep its priviledge position. With basis on colonization and slumming, Tzanelli alludes to dark tourism as a new trend where global North powers, who have played an active role in the process of colonization, today imposes a one-sided message over the global south[6].
Examples of Disaster tourism
2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull
Eyjafjallajökull, in Iceland, began erupting on 20 March 2010.[7][8] At this time, about 500 farmers and their families from the areas of Fljótshlíð, Eyjafjöll, and Landeyjar were evacuated overnight, but allowed to return to their farms and homes after Civil Protection Department risk assessment. On 14 April 2010, Eyjafjallajökull erupted for the second time, requiring 800 people to be evacuated.[9]
In the wake of the first eruption, tour companies offered trips to see the volcano.[10] However, the ash cloud from the second eruption disrupted air traffic over Great Britain and most of northern and western Europe, making it difficult to travel to Iceland even though Iceland's airspace itself remained open throughout.[9][11][12]
See also
References
- ^ Sather-Wagstaff, J. (2011). Heritage that hurts: Tourists in the memoryscapes of September 11 (Vol. 4). Left Coast Press.
- ^ Stone, P., & Sharpley, R. (2008). Consuming dark tourism: A thanatological perspective. Annals of tourism Research, 35(2), 574-595.
- ^ Faulkner, B. (2001). Towards a framework for tourism disaster management. Tourism management, 22(2), 135-147.
- ^ Stone, P. R. (2011). Dark tourism: Towards a new post-disciplinary research agenda. International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, 1(3-4), 318-332.
- ^ Tzanelli, R. (2016). Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk: Screening the End of Tourism. Routledge.
- ^ Tzanelli, R. (2016). Thanatourism and Cinematic Representations of Risk: Screening the End of Tourism (Vol. 176). Routledge.
- ^ "Eldgosið á Fimmvörðuhálsi".
- ^ Volcano Erupts Under Eyjafjallajökull Archived 2014-01-11 at the Wayback Machine, Reykjavík Grapevine, March 21, 2010
- ^ a b "Iceland's volcanic ash halts flights in northern Europe". BBC News. 15 April 2010. Retrieved 15 April 2010. [dead link]
- ^ Tom Robbins. The Guardian. Iceland's erupting volcano. Retrieved 2010-04-15.
- ^ "Cancellations due to volcanic ash in the air". Norwegian Air Shuttle. 15 April 2010. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ "Iceland Volcano Spewing Ash Chokes Europe Air Travel". San Francisco Chronicle. 15 April 2010. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
