Guiding the Dark and Secondary Trauma Syndrome: Tour Guides’ Coping Mechanisms for Guiding in Dark Tourism Sites

Ashaf LESHEM

Makale detayları

Guiding the Dark and Secondary Trauma Syndrome: Tour Guides’ Coping Mechanisms for Guiding in Dark Tourism Sites

Yazarlar:

Ashaf LESHEM

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Dergi:

Journal of Tourismology 2018 Vol.4 Issue 2, pp.107-127

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2018

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000507825

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2459-1939

Özet:

 

This research is a part of PhD research exploring how tour guides interpret the dark chapters of Berlin’s history. The theoretical framework brings together the strands of dark tourism, tour guide, and interpretation literature. In guiding tourists through topics and sites of death, atrocity and genocide, tour guides are subjected to a form of Secondary Trauma. The article examines the part of the research which looks at what kinds of coping mechanisms guides adopt in order to deal with regularly interpreting acts of violence, cruelty and human tragedy. The article reviews the context of this examination and the literature written on Secondary Trauma. It goes on to present early findings and to discuss the ad-hoc ways in which guides deal with the psychological effects of guiding the dark, with various levels of awareness to the symptoms of secondary trauma. Finally, the article coins this phenomenon as Guiding the Dark Accumulative Psychological Stress, allowing room for more research in the future to fill this gap in the literature. .

Makale detayları

Guiding the Dark and Secondary Trauma Syndrome: Tour Guides’ Coping Mechanisms for Guiding in Dark Tourism Sites

Yazarlar: Ashaf LESHEM

Yayıncı: Istanbul University

Dergi: Journal of Tourismology 2018 Vol.4 Issue 2, pp.107-127

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2018

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000507825

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

eISSN: 2459-1939

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Ashaf LESHEM

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Dergi:

Journal of Tourismology 2018 Vol.4 Issue 2, pp.107-127

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2018

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000507825

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

eISSN:

2459-1939