Many studies look at the bodily dimension The strong connections between places of memory and tourism of the guided tour experience (bodily have been extensively and memories, multisensory dimensions) systematically studied, discussed studying the “performed” ritualized and researched since the 1990s. gestures, such as walks, prostrations, silence, while others focus more on the As “remembrance tourism” or “post- emotional complexities involved in these conflict tourism” emerged as research touristic experiences. They suggest that fields, the studies focusing on tourism places of memory are «tourist destinations associated with places of death have are seen as nodes of reiterated performative acts». They are interested in undergone a great development, discussing new categories such as “tragic traces and narratives produced by visitors tourism” (Lippard, 2000), “thanatourism” touring places of violence and suffering, in (Seaton, 1996) or “dark tourism” (Lennon order to understand the role of these visits and Foley, 2000). in their personal transformations, and the construction of their familial, personal Tourism associated with painful memories or even national identity and sense of has been a largely globalized phenomenon, belonging. which nevertheless reflects contrasted Tourism is positioned as an extension of memory dynamics. The global diffusion of the process of remembering and as an tourism associated with places of memory act of resistance – against forgetting and, can be read as one dimension of this “global in some cases, against the erstwhile act memory space”. It is based on various of erasure. Journeys and visits of places factors, involving global geopolitical of memory may involve verification and dynamics, global mobility (information, consolidation of memories, corrections migrant flows, etc.), economic globalization of memories distortion, and sometimes and the role of a global culture (cinema), spontaneous recall. “What makes the and, of course, the global diffusion of touristic journey a unique mechanism of tourism linked to the growing importance remembrance and act of memory work is of this sector in many economies, the that it entails motivation and organization, democratization of travelling and the a commitment and determination to modernization of transport. engage with the past” (Marschall, 2015). 81