Multiplicity of moral emotions in educational dark tourism

Abstract

Tourism experiences are often mediated by morality and imbued with emotions. This study draws on worksheets associated with a field trip to the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to examine moral emotions in educational dark tourism. Thematic analysis of children's field trip narratives revealed a multiplicity of moral emotions in the positioning of ‘self’ and ‘other’. Moral emotions are discussed in reference to acts of violating or upholding the moral standards of victims and transgressors. The War Remnants Museum as a dark tourism site provides a morally relevant context, evoking moral emotions, influencing moral judgments, and persuading moral actional tendencies which all have important implications for theorising emotion and ingroup/outgroup relations in educational dark tourism experiences.