Academy for Tourism

This paper is about Grutas, a Lithuanian park museum near Druskininkai featuring recovered Soviet-era artifacts. This study fills the gap in literature on people’s emotions and reactions dealing with an unwanted past, and an undesirable heritage. Visits to sites associated with occupation, death and suffering are considered emotionally laden. Data were collected from visitor comment books employing a qualitative content analysis as well as quantitative data analysis techniques such as word frequency and semantic network analysis. Few studies empirically investigated visitor emotions to “unwanted” heritage sites. This research provides insights into the interpretive complex by discussing the content of visitor comment books. Three hundred and seventy-nine visitor comments from Lithuanians to the Grutas park museum were examined. Results reveal that visitors experience both negative and positive emotions after visiting the site, such as unpleasantness, discomfort, surprise, admiration and delight. This is the first study to examine visitor’s emotions and reactions to the Grutas park museum, a site related to difficult heritage.

Guest editors:
Dr. Rami K. Isaac, NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences
Dr. Evi Eftychiou, University of Nicosia

This special issue aims to contribute to strengthen academic and professional networks that are necessary to push forward the discussions of tourism’s manifold intersections with existing and emergent CSR ethical approaches and to encourage and advance theoretical, conceptual, empirical research on CSR and Ethics in the context of tourism. We invite papers which engage CSR and Ethics studies approaches to tourism in the following topics (indicative but not exhaustive themes):
• Tourism practices and the moral (existential) debate
• CSR and business
• Sports, events and Ethics
• Human dignity and the representation of women and minorities in video games
• Ethics and tourism development
• Tourism, borders and security
• Tourism, human rights and ethics
• Tourism (im)mobilities
• Tourism and moral consumption
• Tourism and identity politics
• Tourism, ethics and sustainability
• Ethics in (hospitality) management and marketing
• Tourism education, and ethics
• Tourism discourses and ethics
• Tourism representations and ethics
• Tourism, inequality and ethics
Interested authors should email their abstract (200-300 words) or proposal to Rami Isaac, [email protected] and [email protected] before June 1st, 2017
• Authors will be notified no later than June 30, 2017 on the decision over their abstracts.
• Full articles (6,000-8,000 words) should be submitted by December 30, 2017. The format of guidelines is provided on the journal webpage.
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• All manuscripts will undergo blind review by at least three reviewers.

The anticipated date for publication of the Special Issue is September, 2018