“Entrenching nostalgia” : the historical significance of battlefields for South African tourism

dc.contributor.authorWyllie, Richard
dc.contributor.emailrichard.wyllie@up.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-19T11:26:51Z
dc.date.available2015-01-19T11:26:51Z
dc.date.issued2014-11
dc.descriptionHis Masters dissertation at the University of Pretoria is in the field of Heritage and Cultural Tourism and focuses on tourism collaboration in transfrontier conservation areas. His interest in the battlefields has stemmed from his honours research report.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractMany famous battles have left legacies and these have often created a sense of nostalgia motivating people to visit associated sites. Battlefields and other sites of “death and decay” have increased as a popular sub-sector of the fast growing heritage and cultural tourism industry. Battlefields, and other sites associated with war, have been studied by scholars from a variety of disciplines. In more recent times, tourism professionals and academics have begun to study battlefields and their associated histories for the purpose of developing and promoting them as tourist attractions. This has resulted in a distinct link between the historical and tourism sectors. In this paper, the Battle of Spioenkop (KwaZulu-Natal) will be discussed as an example of how history and a battle site in particular can contribute to the development of tourism.en_ZA
dc.description.librariantm2015en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_hist.htmlen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationWyllie, R 2014, '"Entrenching nostalgia” : the historical significance of battlefields for South African tourism', Historia, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 210-228en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0018-229X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/43124
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherHistorical Association of South Africaen_ZA
dc.rightsHistorical Association of South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectHeritageen_ZA
dc.subjectTourismen_ZA
dc.subjectBattlefield tourismen_ZA
dc.subjectBattle of Spioenkopen_ZA
dc.subjectBattlefields Routeen_ZA
dc.subjectDark tourismen_ZA
dc.subjectThanatourismen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth African tourismen_ZA
dc.title“Entrenching nostalgia” : the historical significance of battlefields for South African tourismen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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