Tourism, Memorials and Landscapes of Violence: Remembering the Holocaust and the Pacific War - Paperback

by Rudi Hartmann (Editor)

The book focuses on tourism, memorial sites of the Holocaust and the Pacific War and the management practices for the visitors that they attract.

It provides an account of landscapes of violence as millions of people in Central and Eastern Europe, China, Japan and the United States were affected by wars, conflicts and crises.

Author Biography

Rudi Hartmann is a Professor Emeritus (C/T) at the University of Colorado Denver, where he has taught geography and tourism planning since 1992. He received his Ph.D. in Geography from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 1983. A long-time interest of his is the study of tourist experiences at heritage sites. He has closely examined heritage tourism at memorial sites of the Holocaust in Germany and in the Netherlands. He has published numerous articles and books on these and related topics.