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What is Philippines

Chapter 2
Special Interest Tourism in Southeast Asia: Emerging Research and Opportunities
This represents a country formed by thousands of islands situated in Southeast Asia.
Published in Chapter:
Dark Tourism in the Philippines Islands
Bintang Handayani (Independent Researcher, Indonesia), Hugues Seraphin (The University of Winchester, UK), and Maximiliano Korstanje (University of Palermo, Argentina)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7393-7.ch002
Abstract
Though the study of dark tourism has been widely expanded over the recent years, less attention was given to the Southeast Asian destinations. Dark tourism exhibits events that are marked a disgrace, the fatalities that interrogate on our own vulnerability. As a gaze of the Significant Other, dark tourism anthropologically mediates between our finitude and the future. The chapter centers on Philippines as a new emergent destination of dark tourism, stressing the contributions of the industry to the heritage sites but alerting the contradictions this new morbid consumption generates.
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