Dark tourism and the process of resiliency post disaster contexts: A new alternative view

• Maximiliano E. Korstanje ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Palermo, Argentina
• Localización: TURYDES: Revista sobre Turismo y Desarrollo local sostenible, ISSN-e 1988-5261, Vol. 5, Nº. 13, 2012
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Para algunos especialistas, el turismo es una actividad de gran resiliencia porque en la mayoría de los casos recupera los efectos de guerras, desastres y riesgo globales. No obstante, el presente paper sugiere una idea contraria. El turismo, como industria, revitaliza los tendones económicos de la comunidad luego de un estado de emergencia, dando a los sobrevivientes una lección, un discurso el cual muchas veces hace que el evento se vuelva a repetir. Desde esta perspectiva, el turismo es un mecanismo importante de resilencia que ayuda a la sociedad a recuperarse. No obstante a ello, la modernidad ha hecho de los eventos catastróficos un espectáculo mediatizado y vendible según intereses comerciales. En vistas de esta realidad, las causas que llevaron al desastre no solo son tergiversadas, sino olvidadas generando un alto riesgo a que el evento se repita mañana.

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