Dark tourism: Exploring tourist's experience at the Cape Coast Castle, Ghana

Boateng, H; Okoe, AF; Hinson, RE

Dark tourism: Exploring tourist's experience at the Cape Coast Castle, Ghana

Boateng, H

Okoe, AF Hinson, RE

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Citation:: Tourism Management Perspectives, 2018, 27 pp. 104 - 110
Issue Date:: 2018-07-01

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dc.contributor.author	Boateng, H https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7949-5557	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Okoe, AF	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Hinson, RE	en_US
dc.date.issued	2018-07-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Tourism Management Perspectives, 2018, 27 pp. 104 - 110	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	2211-9736	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/128556
dc.description.abstract	© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This paper investigates tourists’ experience of the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana. Using a phenomenological research design, we explored the experiences of the tourist who visited the Castle. We used data from the Tripadvisor website and analyzed it thematically. The findings show that dark tourism experience is conceptualized from cognitive and emotional perspectives. Furthermore, the results show that tourists’ experiences are shaped and co-constructed with the tourist guards and the artefacts available at the sites. Additionally, our results show tourists who visit dark tourist sites do not experience only anxiety and sorrow but excitement as well. The results also show that tourists who are of African descent see the Cape Coast Castle as a symbol of their identity and these tourists adopt the Castle as part of their personal identity. The implications of the findings are discussed at the end of the paper.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Tourism Management Perspectives	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.tmp.2018.05.004	en_US
dc.title	Dark tourism: Exploring tourist's experience at the Cape Coast Castle, Ghana	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	27	en_US
utslib.for	1506 Tourism	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/IKM and Digital Studies Program
utslib.copyright.status	closed_access
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	27	en_US

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© 2018 Elsevier Ltd This paper investigates tourists’ experience of the Cape Coast Castle in Ghana. Using a phenomenological research design, we explored the experiences of the tourist who visited the Castle. We used data from the Tripadvisor website and analyzed it thematically. The findings show that dark tourism experience is conceptualized from cognitive and emotional perspectives. Furthermore, the results show that tourists’ experiences are shaped and co-constructed with the tourist guards and the artefacts available at the sites. Additionally, our results show tourists who visit dark tourist sites do not experience only anxiety and sorrow but excitement as well. The results also show that tourists who are of African descent see the Cape Coast Castle as a symbol of their identity and these tourists adopt the Castle as part of their personal identity. The implications of the findings are discussed at the end of the paper.

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