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Walking the Falls: Dark tourism and the significance of movement on the political tour of West Belfast

Walking the Falls: Dark tourism and the significance of movement on the political tour of West... This article uses the personalised political tour of the Falls Road as a case study with which to unpack the debate on political tourism in Northern Ireland. It shows how significant the walking mode of tourist transport is to the tourist experience and how integrated and effective it is in the context of explaining the Troubles and extending the Republican ideology. Within this contentious narrative of movement, the tour guide develops an ambivalence that intrigues, repulses and propels the tourist through the tour. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tourist Studies: An International Journal SAGE

Walking the Falls: Dark tourism and the significance of movement on the political tour of West Belfast

Tourist Studies: An International Journal , Volume 16 (1): 17 – Mar 1, 2016

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2015
ISSN
1468-7976
eISSN
1741-3206
DOI
10.1177/1468797615588427
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Abstract

This article uses the personalised political tour of the Falls Road as a case study with which to unpack the debate on political tourism in Northern Ireland. It shows how significant the walking mode of tourist transport is to the tourist experience and how integrated and effective it is in the context of explaining the Troubles and extending the Republican ideology. Within this contentious narrative of movement, the tour guide develops an ambivalence that intrigues, repulses and propels the tourist through the tour.

Journal

Tourist Studies: An International JournalSAGE

Published: Mar 1, 2016

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