For many of you reading this blog today, I am sure some of your earliest holidaying memories likely include ice creams on the rough English coastal beaches of Scarborough, Blackpool, or Falmouth. Perhaps you may have even been fortunate enough to experience the sweltering Spanish sun over the school holidays, complete with your Mum dousingContinue reading “Egyptian excursions: The emergence of accessible package holidays: 1840-1900.”
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Idiots on Ibiza
By Maisie Rhia Kaye-Priestley Vamos de fiesta! The development of Party Package holidays on Ibiza A Brief History of Ibiza: A rocky history of Ibiza: both literally and metaphorically. The thousands of years of ongoing invasions, differing settlers and reshaping of the land has changed the way in which we view the island in theContinue reading “Idiots on Ibiza”
Bombs, Bullets, and Bragioli
Dark Tourism: War and the Maltese Archipelago “Death is the one heritage that everyone shares. It has been an element of tourism longer than any other form of heritage.” (Seaton, 1996). Strange Bedfellows Theoretical frameworks describe dark tourism as travel to sites related to tragedy, death, or suffering, such as natural disasters, genocides, or conflictContinue reading “Bombs, Bullets, and Bragioli”
Britons Abroad 