The Institute for Dark Tourism Research (iDTR), based at the University of Central Lancashire, England, is a world-leading academic centre for dark tourism scholarship, research and teaching.
The iDTR promotes ethical research into the social scientific understanding of tourist sites of death, disaster or the seemingly macabre.
The Institute for Dark Tourism Research aims to advance knowledge about the act of visitation to tourist sites of death, disaster or the seemingly macabre.
The iDTR brings together researchers who seek to deliver internationally recognised research that contributes to the ethical and social scientific understanding of dark tourism and dark heritage.
The iDTR seeks to research, publish, and consult as to the appropriate development, management, interpretation and promotion of dark tourism sites, attractions and exhibitions, as well as understanding tourist experiences.
Our iDTR Academic Partners come from a broad array of disciplines, and are all research active in dark tourism, visitor site management, or heritage studies.
Our Academic Partners comprise world-leading scholars from across the globe and from internationally renowned Universities and research institutions, who colloborate in diverse dark tourism and heritage projects.
Our Industry Partners operate in a wide array of tourism and heritage sectors from around the world and together with Academic Partners, help us better understand travel to sites of death, disaster, and atrocity.
Research at the iDTR provide critical insights into the diverse and provocative phenomenon of dark tourism and, as a result, we produce quality and influential research publications.
The aim of
our research is to provide a better understanding of the
fundamental interrelationships dark tourism and heritage have with
the cultural condition of contemporary
society.
Our research studies explore the social, cultural, political and ethical concepts of dark tourism, as well as the consequences of consuming dark tourism. The iDTR provides for an ethical and sensitive research community in which to study the commodification of death.
Dr Philip Stone
Executive Director of iDTR
University of Central Lancashire, UK
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