Tourism, Memorials and Landscapes of Violence

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.

• Introduction: Main Themes and Structure of the BookChapter 1 Dark Tourism, thanatourism, dissonance in heritage tourism in management: new directions in contemporary tourism research (reprint of research note in the Journal of Heritage Tourism, 2014) Extension to research note for the time period 2013 - 2023Rudi HartmannIntroduction Part 1: Remembering the Holocaust The Evolution of a New Memorial Landscape for the Victims of Nazi Germany: the long and complicated path to the recognition of the former Nazi concentration camps as memorials and museumsRudi HartmannChapter 2 The memorial site at the former Dachau concentration camp (1933 – 1945): a dissonant heritage for a small Bavarian market town which has become an internationally recognized destinationRudi HartmannChapter 3 The long and twisted road to a memorial: The Kaufering satellite camp complex of the Dachau Concentration Camp and the difficulties of coming to terms with the past Manfred Deiler (1953 – 2023) and Edith RaimChapter 4 German landscapes of commemoration: the difficult legacy of wartime aerospace industriesDietrich SoyezChapter 5 Amsterdam under Nazi German Occupation Remembered (1940 – 1945)Rudi HartmannIntroduction Part II: Remembering the Pacific War Contrasting interpretations of the Pacific War events 1937 – 1945 and distinct forms of commemoration: The Japanese Greater East Asian War, Chinese resistance against the Japanese occupying forces and a Pacific wide engagement of the U.S. forces after the Pearl Harbor attack December 7, 1941Rudi HartmannChapter 6 Tourism to the Lu Gou Qiao: enduring scenic qualities of a landmark bridge and a difficult legacy of a conflict site (reprint of article in the Journal of Heritage Tourism 2021)Rudi Hartmann and Ming Ming SuChapter 7 Remembering Japanese American confinement: memorial practices at Amache and ManzanarWhitney Peterson and Bonnie J. ClarkChapter 8 The commemoration of the Yamato battleship war events in popular Japanese cultureJang KyungjaeChapter 9 ‘Kamikaze’ heritage tourism in Japan: a pathway to peace and understanding (reprint of article in the Journal of Heritage Tourism 2020)Richard SharpleyChapter 10 Victims and perpetrators at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial ParkHamilton BeanConclusionsRudi Hartmann