Immersive Encounters With Tragedy: The Role of Virtual Reality in Enhancing Dark Tourism Experiences, Education and Transformative Engagement

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83662-342-720251022" target="_blank" >10.1108/978-1-83662-342-720251022</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Immersive Encounters With Tragedy: The Role of Virtual Reality in Enhancing Dark Tourism Experiences, Education and Transformative Engagement

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a potentially powerful tool in dark tourism, providing immersive and interactive experiences that enhance the understanding and commemoration of tragic historical events. Despite the increasing use of VR in tourism, there is a significant research gap in understanding how these immersive experiences can potentially facilitate transformative tourist experiences (TTE) and ensure ethical representation of tragedies. This multiple qualitative case study examines the application and impact of VR in dark tourism through cases of five notable sites: the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp Memorial, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the 9/11 Memorial Museum, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, and the Anne Frank House. Each case highlights the use of VR to create realistic and emotionally compelling simulations that allow virtual visitors to explore these sites in unprecedented detail. The analysis reveals that VR enhances visitor engagement, deepens emotional impact, and serves as an effective educational tool, making historical events more accessible to a global audience. Furthermore, VR facilitates potential TTE by fostering personal reflection and a deeper understanding of the human condition. Additionally, VR contributes to the preservation of these sites by reducing physical foot traffic and wear on fragile locations. The chapter underscores the potential of VR to transform dark tourism, offering new ways to engage with history and promote empathy and understanding of past tragedies. Future research should focus on the long-term educational benefits of VR in dark tourism and its potential to foster a deeper societal awareness of his- torical atrocities.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Immersive Encounters With Tragedy: The Role of Virtual Reality in Enhancing Dark Tourism Experiences, Education and Transformative Engagement

Popis výsledku anglicky

Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a potentially powerful tool in dark tourism, providing immersive and interactive experiences that enhance the understanding and commemoration of tragic historical events. Despite the increasing use of VR in tourism, there is a significant research gap in understanding how these immersive experiences can potentially facilitate transformative tourist experiences (TTE) and ensure ethical representation of tragedies. This multiple qualitative case study examines the application and impact of VR in dark tourism through cases of five notable sites: the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp Memorial, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the 9/11 Memorial Museum, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, and the Anne Frank House. Each case highlights the use of VR to create realistic and emotionally compelling simulations that allow virtual visitors to explore these sites in unprecedented detail. The analysis reveals that VR enhances visitor engagement, deepens emotional impact, and serves as an effective educational tool, making historical events more accessible to a global audience. Furthermore, VR facilitates potential TTE by fostering personal reflection and a deeper understanding of the human condition. Additionally, VR contributes to the preservation of these sites by reducing physical foot traffic and wear on fragile locations. The chapter underscores the potential of VR to transform dark tourism, offering new ways to engage with history and promote empathy and understanding of past tragedies. Future research should focus on the long-term educational benefits of VR in dark tourism and its potential to foster a deeper societal awareness of his- torical atrocities.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50204 - Business and management

Projekt

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Návaznosti

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Extended Reality in Culture and Creative Industries

ISBN

9781836623434

Počet stran výsledku

25

Strana od-do

219-243

Počet stran knihy

282

Název nakladatele

Emerald Publishing Limited

Místo vydání

Leeds

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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