The topic of death of tourists on their trip has not been treated in tourism studies. This article departs from the prevailing approach to death in contemporary thanatological studies and focuses upon the specific issue involved in tourist death. It conceives the common characteristics of tourist deaths and raises some basic sociological questions regarding the treatment of tourist fatalities in a major disaster. It examines those questions in a case study of the retrieval and identification of dead tourists in the tsunami disaster in southern Thailand.
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