Pascal Mandelartz is a scholar of Tourism Management whose research specialises in niche and heritage tourism — in particular the niche of ‘dark tourism’. His work explores how cemeteries and other heritage sites transform into meaningful cultural landscapes: looking at how heritage interpretation, spatial narratives, and guided tours shape visitor experience, memory, and understandings of place and history. He has contributed to the field as co-editor of Thanatourism: Case Studies in Travel to the Dark Side, which brings together theoretical and empirical perspectives on tourism associated with death, disaster, and memory. Moreover, he investigates how digital representations and the marketing of such sites influence tourist expectations and behaviours — for example, in the context of Holocaust-related tourism. His work sits at the intersection of cultural heritage studies, ethics, memory studies and visitor experience — offering critical insight into how societies engage with difficult pasts through tourism.

Mandelartz, P. & Johnson, T. (eds) (2016) Thanatourism: Case studies in Travel to the Dark Side, Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers Ltd.

Johnston, T., Tigre-Moura, F. & Mandelartz, P. (2016) ‘”‘Welcome to the home of Auschwitz tours”: The online marketing of genocide tourism’, in Mandelartz, P. & Johnson, T. (eds) Thanatourism: Case studies in Travel to the Dark Side, Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers Ltd, 155-170.