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More than seventy years following the D-Day Landings of 6 June
1944, Normandy's war heritage continues to intrigue visitors and
researchers. Receiving well over two million visitors a year, the
Normandy landscape of war is among the most visited cultural sites
in France. This book explores the significant role that heritage
and tourism play in the present day with regard to educating the
public as well as commemorating those who fought. The book examines
the perspectives, experiences and insights of those who work in the
field of war heritage in the region of Normandy where the D-Day
landings and the Battle of Normandy occurred. In this volume
practitioner authors represent a range of interrelated roles and
responsibilities. These perspectives include national and regional
governments and coordinating agencies involved in policy, planning
and implementation; war cemetery commissions; managers who oversee
particular museums and sites; and individual battlefield tour
guides whose vocation is to research and interpret sites of memory.
Often interviewed as key informants for scholarly articles, the
day-to-day observations, experiences and management decisions of
these guardians of remembrance provide valuable insight into a
range of issues and approaches that inform the meaning of tourism,
remembrance and war heritage as well as implications for the
management of war sites elsewhere. Complementing the Normandy
practitioner offerings, more scholarly investigations provide an
opportunity to compare and debate what is happening in the
management and interpretation at other World War II related sites
of war memory, such as at Pearl Harbor, Okinawa and Portsmouth, UK.
This innovative volume will be of interest to those interested in
remembrance tourism, war heritage, dark tourism, battlefield
tourism, commemoration, D-Day and World War II.
More than seventy years following the D-Day Landings of 6 June
1944, Normandy's war heritage continues to intrigue visitors and
researchers. Receiving well over two million visitors a year, the
Normandy landscape of war is among the most visited cultural sites
in France. This book explores the significant role that heritage
and tourism play in the present day with regard to educating the
public as well as commemorating those who fought. The book examines
the perspectives, experiences and insights of those who work in the
field of war heritage in the region of Normandy where the D-Day
landings and the Battle of Normandy occurred. In this volume
practitioner authors represent a range of interrelated roles and
responsibilities. These perspectives include national and regional
governments and coordinating agencies involved in policy, planning
and implementation; war cemetery commissions; managers who oversee
particular museums and sites; and individual battlefield tour
guides whose vocation is to research and interpret sites of memory.
Often interviewed as key informants for scholarly articles, the
day-to-day observations, experiences and management decisions of
these guardians of remembrance provide valuable insight into a
range of issues and approaches that inform the meaning of tourism,
remembrance and war heritage as well as implications for the
management of war sites elsewhere. Complementing the Normandy
practitioner offerings, more scholarly investigations provide an
opportunity to compare and debate what is happening in the
management and interpretation at other World War II related sites
of war memory, such as at Pearl Harbor, Okinawa and Portsmouth, UK.
This innovative volume will be of interest to those interested in
remembrance tourism, war heritage, dark tourism, battlefield
tourism, commemoration, D-Day and World War II.
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