DARK, RECONSTRUCTION AND RESTORED HERITAGE: MODELS OF CULTURAL HERITAGE AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT IN POST-DISASTER CONTEXTS

In post-disaster contexts the conventionally perceived notion of time is challenged. A disaster turns the contemporary into history, the built environment into ruins and hence into an archaeological landscape, and everyday life into memories of the past. In this context, this paper focuses on cultural heritage and tourism management. By reviewing and discussing the relevant literature, it frames three time-based heritage tourism models, i.e. Dark Heritage Tourism, Reconstruction Heritage Tourism, and Restored Heritage Tourism. Further research should explore these heritage tourism management models and their potential combination in a heritage tourism lifecycle, in order to understand whether and to what extent post-disaster contexts may be capable of experimentation with and exploration of tourism development opportunities, in the face of the complexities of (not only physical) reconstruction processes.