Jetten, Patrick (2022) Dark tourism: Understanding the motivations for visiting Camp Vught. Master thesis, Cultural Geography - Tourism Geography and Planning (TGP).
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Abstract
The field of dark tourism studies developed a lot over the last decades. Nevertheless, there is still little empirical research done, especially qualitative research focused on the consumer side. The research that is available shows that the motivations for visiting dark tourism sites are not one-sided, rather it is complex and has a multiplicity of possible reasons, which vary between places and people. This thesis aims to investigate and understand the motivations of people for visiting the dark tourism site of Camp Vught. Camp Vught was the only former SS-concentration Camp in The Netherlands during the Second World War. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with visitors of Camp Vught. The findings demonstrated the complexity and multitude of visiting motivations for the dark tourism site of Camp Vught. Examples include: telling the story to the next generations, heritage, this can never happen again, educational function, curiosity, and commemorating. Given the relatively small sample size of the study, additional research is needed to identify and to validate the additional possible motivations given by the interviewees for visiting Camp Vught. This was beyond the scope of this research. Furthermore, it would also be valuable to conduct similar qualitative empirical research on other dark tourism sites.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Name supervisor: | Muldoon, M.L. |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2022 12:00 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2022 12:00 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/191 |
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