Survey report on awareness/ interest of students in Dark tourism

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1 Södertörns University School of Natural Science, Technology and Environmental Studies Bachelor of Science in Tourism program Spring semester 2013 Survey report on awareness/ interest of students in Dark tourism Second assignment to: Memory Landscapes and Tourism. Intensive short course in dark tourism (Memorscapes) Saaremaa, Estonia July 28-August 8/9, 2013 Authors: Anna Brandt and Neena Frostne, Sweden

2 Second assignment to: Memory Landscapes and Tourism. Intensive short course in dark tourism (Memorscapes) Saaremaa, Estonia July 28-August 8/9, 2013 Survey report on awareness/ interest of students in Dark tourism This survey was handed out to Bachelor of Science in Tourism student s year 2010, bytheauthors of this report Anna Brandt and NeenaFrostne, at Södertörn University under the semester spring 2013.The report contains answers from totally 50 individuals that study the Bachelor of Science in Tourism programat Södertörn University.

3 Question 1: On the scale below how familiar are you with the dark tourism concept? (Circle the appropriate number) On the question number one there were 50% who were familiar and very familiar with the concept dark tourism concept (bar 5, 6, 7 in the diagram). 20% (bar 1 in the diagram) were not at all familiar with the concept. And the rest 30% is just little familiar whit the concept. Question 2: In your own words please define dark tourism as you understand it. On this question we have chosen 5 definitions that the students should define concerning dark tourism. For all the answers please look in enclosure 1. One student answer: Don t know anything about it. Here we will show five students that we think are representativeexamples of their definitions. Dark tourism is defined for me by many different actors. The original definition by John Lennon and Foley are for me not following the others. For example media and other academics that are working in that field. I defined those persons who have knowledge in that field. I defined that as a tourism product where tragical event-new as old and popular gets tourists visitors where they get information about what has happened. Tourism to places where something terrible has happen. Places where catastrophe has accord and are visited of tourists of that reason. it can maybe bee attractions where something horrible has accord, maybe something that has made a mark on the country s history. Some organizations like prostitution, drugs etc. When people travel to take advantage of a situation in another country like the sex industry in Thailand.

4 Question 3: On the scale below how interested are you to visit places related to war/disaster/death/suffering? (Circle the appropriate number). On the question number 3 there were 44% (bar 5, 6, 7 in the diagram) who were interested or very interested to visit dark tourism places. 66% (bar 1, 2, 3, 4 in the diagram) were not at all interested or very little interested to visit places related to war/ disaster/death/ suffering.

5 Question 4: Please list 3 destination/sites in your country that are or could be considered as dark tourism sites/attractions. To illustrate the answers we have chosen to list the destinations/sites from the Swedish map below. Related Stockholm dark tourism sites/attractions Vasa Museum, Stockholm, Sweden Vasa Museum- exhibition Face to Face where they show skeletons from the ship, Stockholm, Sweden Old town, Stockholm, Sweden Östermalm, Stockholm, Sweden Old town-stockholm s blood bath, Stockholm, Sweden Stockholmghost walk, Guided tours in Old town Stockholm, Sweden Museum, about Stockholm bloodbath, Stockholm, Sweden SkogskyrkogårdenThe Woodland Cemetery, in Stockholm Sweden, The Big Squarein Old Town Stockholm, Sweden Olof Palme sstreet, Stockholm, Sweden Birka on the island of Björkö in Lake Mälaren,Sweden s first real Town. During Viking times eighth century Långholmen- Prison museum, Stockholm, Sweden ShipwrecksDalarö, Haninge, Stockholm, Sweden Malmskillnadsgatan, Stockholm, Sweden Other dark tourism sites/attractions in Sweden Uppsala mounds is the name of the three so-called royal mounds of Old Uppsala. Uppsala, Sweden Bohus fortress,bohuslän, Gothenburg, Sweden Tjörn Bridge, formerdemolished bridge, Bohuslän, Göteborg LinnéplatsenGothenburg, Sweden HeligaBirgittassten. Kalvnäset,Uppland, Sweden Martebo lights, Gotland, Sweden Battlefield of Mästerby, Gotland, Sweden Nyköping banquet, Nyköping, Sweden Ådalen shootings, Kramfors, Sweden Halmstad, Sweden, Engsö Castle, Västerås, Sweden Varberg fortress, Varberg, Sweden Shipwreck s in the archipelago Rataskär, Robertfors municipality, Sweden Picture: The Swedish map has following license= GNU Free Documentation License Author NordNordWest: Three students have not answered the question and two write that they don t know. One student commented: I am not familiar with this in Sweden, we have some streets like Malmskillnadsgatan (Stockholm), and some clubs more or less taking that kind of apportion. And one student answered an overall answer Wars between Sweden and Denmark".

6 Question 5: Please list 3 sites/attractions related to dark tourism you have visited in your country or abroad?to illustrate the answers we have chosen to list the sites/attractions from the World Map bellow. Picture: The World map has following license= GNU Free Documentation License Author original uploader Roke: Four students have not given any examples on this question. Europe Amterdam, Netherlands,where you can takedrugs,chile, South America and the sameinthailand AuschwitzBirkenau, Poland The Berlin Wall, Germany Hitler'seagle's nest, Germany The Vasa ship, Stockholm, Sweden Engsö castle, Sweden Old Town, Stockholm, Sweden Stortorget (The Big Square), Sweden Martebo lights,sweden Battlefield of Mästerby, Sweden Stockholm Ghost walk, Sweden Stockholm s bloodbath, Sweden Skogskyrkogården- cemetery, Sweden Varberg Fortress, Sweden Ronneby bloodbath, Sweden Jerusalem, Israel Kilmainham Gaol Prison, Ireland Tower of London, United Kingdom Churchill sold bunker in London, United Kingdom Concentration camp in Germany Normandy, D-day beaches, France Montmartre, France Chernobyl, Ukraine Vesuvius, Italy KutnaHora, Czech Republic Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Berlin,Germany Checkpoint Charlie, Germany The country of Bosnia Treblinka, Germany A tankwreckoutside Jordan Africa Slave cellars, Tanzania Asia Cambodia-Killing fields, Cambodia Mindanao, Philippines Vietnam- Cu Chi tunnels, Vietnam Vietnam- war museum, Vietnam Krabi, Thailand North America Alcatraz, San Francisco,United States of America Monument for afireman, San FranciscoUnited States of America John Lennon s death place in New York, United States of America Arlington National Cemetery, United States of America

7 Question 6: Below are listed some possible reasons why you might want to visit dark tourism sites. Pleas provide your answer your answer to each of these statements on 7-point scale (1- totally disagree, 7-totally agree). We have chosen to show each statement in one diagram each. The statement is named, statement 6.1 to 6.10 for each question. For example (Statement 6.1 stands for statement Because I want to see it in order to believe it ). 58% (bar 1,2,3 in the diagram) totally disagree that they wanted to visit dark tourism sights in order to believe it.42% (bar 4,5,6,7 in the diagram) agreed to totally agree that they wanted to visit dark tourism sights in order to believe it. Statement 6.2 To make the event real for me On this statement % ( bar 1,2,3 in the diagram) totally disagree or disagree that they would visit a dark tourism sight to make it even real for them.56% ( bar 4,5,6,7 in the diagram) little agreed to totally agree that they would visit a dark tourism sight to make it even real for them.

8 Statement 6.3 To learn more of what happened On this statement 6.3 no answers where on (bar 2 in the diagram).18% (bar 1, 3 in the diagram) totally disagreed to disagreed that they would visit a dark tourism sight because to learn more what happened.82% (bar 4,5,6,7 in the diagram) showed agree to totally agree that they would visit a dark tourism sight to learn more of what happened. Statement 6.4 To better understand what happened On this statement %( bar 1, 2, 3 in the diagram) totally disagreed to little agreed that they would visit a dark tourism sight to better understand what happened. 74% (bar 4, 5, 6, 7 in the diagram) agreed to totally agree that they would visit a dark tourism sight to better understand what happened on that sight.

9 On this statement % (bar 1,2,3,4 in the diagram) totally disagreed to little agreed that they would visit a dark tourism sight because it is an tourist attraction.20% ( bar 5,6,7 in the diagram) agreed or totally agreed that they would visit a dark tourism sight because it is an tourist attraction. On this statement % (bar 1,2,3,4 in the diagram) totally disagreed to little agreed that they were interested in seeing sites linked to death/ suffering. 16% (bar 5, 6, 7 in the diagram) agreed to totally agreed that they were interested in seeing sites linked to death /suffering.

10 On this statement 6.7 no answer was on the scale number 7 totally agree on To help me feel empathy whit the victims.64% (bar 1, 2, 3 in the diagram) totally disagreed that they visit a dark tourism sight to help them feel empathy whit the victims.36% (bar 4, 5, 6 in the diagram) little agreed to agreed that they would visit a dark tourism sight to help them feel empathy with the victims. On this statement 6.8 no answer was on scale number 7 totally agree on Because I want to have an emotional experience.88% (bar 1, 2, 3, 4, in the diagram) totally disagreed to little agreed that they would visit a dark tourism site because they want to have an emotional experience.12% little agree to agree that they would visit a dark tourism sight because the wanted to have an emotional experience.

11 On this statement % (bar 1,2,3,4 in the diagram) totally disagreed to little agreed that they would visit a dark tourism sight to make them feel closer to their heritage. 14% (bar 5, 6, 7 in the diagram) little agree and totally agree that they would visit a dark tourism sight to make them feel closer to their heritage. On this statement % (bar 1, 2, 3 in the diagram) totally disagreed to little agreed that they would visit a dark tourism sight to better understand the heritage of the place they visit.62% (bar 4,5,6,7 in the diagram) agreed to totally agreed that they would visit a dark tourism site to better understand the heritage of the place they visit.

12 Enclosure 1 Question 2 from the survey: In your own words please define dark tourism as you understand it Respondent 1: Dark tourism is tourism that has to do with visiting places where negative events have taken place. Respondent 2: Dark tourism is historical. Attraction place there to get to know about a historical part, for example World War 2, Auschwitz (Poland) there many countries was involved and many people died in Europe mass grave. Respondent 3: Swedish: Turism till platser där något hemskt har hänt. English translation: Tourism to places where something terrible has happen. Respondent 4: Swedish: Det handlar om minnesturism. English translation: It s about Memory Tourism. Respondent 5: Swedish: Tragiska mörka platser som är lämnade. English translation: Tragically dark places which is abounded. Respondent 6: Visiting churches, graveyards etc. and other things that somehow are related to death of people Respondent 7: Don t know anything about it Respondent 8: I guess it has to do whit dark things? Auschwitz could be dark tourism Respondent 9: A place where horrible things took place. I.E. Auschwitz, Cambodia, Memorial sights Respondent 10: Travel in the purpose of visiting a site that has any association whit death and autencity Respondent 11: I see it as a place where evil deeds have taken place and later on have been turned into an area which accepts tourist and talk about those very specific things. Respondent 12: A place whit bad and horrible history that is interesting to visit Respondent 13: Dark tourism is tourism related to death and tragedy Respondent 14: Dark tourism is tourism attractions that are related whit death, wars, disasters etc. Respondent 15: Sneaky tourism not reliable or maybe some dark history Respondent 16: Kanske saker man inte är medveten om, men får reda på under turistandet? Kanske något. Med dåliga erfarenheter som krigshärjade platser. English translation: Maybe stuff that you are not aware of, but get aware of from being a tourist? Maybe something with bad experience as battlefields sights. Respondent 17: Swedish: Platser med mörkhistoria.

13 English translation: Places with dark history Respondent 18: Swedish: Handlar om platser där mord och andra hemska saker har hänt historiskt. English translation: It is places where murder and other horrible things have happened historical. Respondent: 19 Interest in dark subjects like vampires, death, mystery, ghosts etc. Respondent: 20 I believe it is places which shows the tourists place from war and where bad things has happened. Respondent: 21 Swedish: Historiska platser med lidande focus. English translation: Historical places whit suffering in focus. Respondent: 22 Swedish: Plats där katastrof inträffat och besöks av turister av den anledningen. English translation: Places where catastrophe has accord and are visited of tourists of that the reason. Respondent 23: Dark tourism is a place where something bad has happened and now people visit it. Respondent 24: History, death Respondent 25: Prostitution Respondent 26: Dark Respondent 27: Memory tourism Respondent 28: Besökpå ex. Krigsplatser (visiting war places) Respondent 29 Besök på platser där det var krig (viseting places where has been in war) Respondent 30: Dark tourism is tourism that focus on stuff that is not that positive like World War II Respondent 31: Omfattar kanske attraktioner där något hemskt har skett, kanske även något som satt prägel på landets historia. English translation: it can maybe bee attractions where something horrible has accord, maybe something that has made a mark on the country s history. Respondent 32: Swedish: Auschwitz. Där människor blev dödade. Dark tourism relaterar till turism där krig och annat hemskt försiggått. English translation: Auschwitz. There people got killed and so on. Dark tourism is related to tourism there war and other stuff have happened. Respondent 33: Dark tourism is tourism about wars and other things that is dark. For example Auschwitz, Berlinmuren (The Berlin wall), World War 2 Respondent 34: Some organizations like prostitution, drugs etc. When people travel to take advantage of a situation in another country like the sex industry in Thailand.

14 Respondent 35: Tourism connected to war and death Respondent 36: Travel to sites associated whit death and tragedy Respondent 37: Travel to disaster sites or related to death Respondent 38: Where dark actions took place Respondent 39: Swedish: morbid turism typ saker som hänt I historien som har med brott och tragedi att göra English translation: Morbid tourism sort off, like stuff that happen in the history that has whit blood and tragedy to do. Respondent 40: I define it like something scary, I think about history, things that has happened Respondent 41: Dark tourism is tourism about scary things I think Respondent 42: Swedish: Kyrkor, döden, andras olycka. English translation: Charters, death, others on fortune Respondent 43: Places related to war disaster, death and other dark happenings Respondent 44: Swedish: En plats eller en attraktion som kan kopplas till en händelse som kanske inte nödvändigtvis är hemsk och innehåller död, men det är det första jag tänker på English translation: A place or an attraction that can be associated to an event that maybe not necessarely is horrible and it contains death, but that is the first thing I am thinking of. Respondent 45: Swedish: Något mörkt, ledsamt. Myckethistoria English translation: Something dark, sorrowful. Much history Respondent 46: Tourism concerning places where people been. Or killed (example) Respondent 47: Swedish: Dark tourism definieras enligt mig olika av olika aktörer. Den ursprungliga definitionen av John Lennon & Foley följer enligt mig inte andra. Tillexempel media av andra akademiker som är insatta i ämnet. Jag definierar det som är insatt i ämnet. Jag definierar det som en turismverksamhet där tragiska händelser- gamla som nya och aktuella får turistiska besökare där de får information om det som skett. English translation: Darkt tourism is defined for me by many different actors. The original definition by John Lennon and Foley are for me not following the others. For example media and other academics that are working in that field. I defined those persons who have knowledge in that field. I defined that as a tourism product where tragically event-new as old and popular gets tourist s visitors where they get information about what has happened.

15 Respondent 48: Dark tourism är som att besöka länder, krig eller att man skulle besöka Thailand efter tsunamin English translation: Dark tourism is like visiting countries, war or you could visit Thailand after the tsunami Respondent 49: I would say that its tourism in a history case. That you discover that darker side of a history. Such as World War II and old battlefields Respondent 50: Tourism that takes advantage of a dark past like shipwrecks or Auschwitz