thus suggests to redefine memory as “travelling” or such as the memory of the Shoah or slavery. Finally,
“transcultural”, shifting «from stable and allegedly the global scope of certain events linked to risks
“pure” national-cultural memory towards the and threats now considered to be global (nuclear,
movements, connections, and mixing of memories» terrorism) contributes to the rise of a “global”
(Erll, 2014). In addition, some researchers insist on memory culture.
the emergence of a “global memory culture” leading
Admittedly, the numerous studies on national
to common memory regimes beyond national and local contexts reflect different modalities of
specificities (Zwingenberg, 2015). tourism development and the uneven attractiveness
The global diffusion of tourism associated with
of places of memory in the world. While some
places of memory can be read as one dimension of have gained global recognition and are visited by
this “global memory space”. It is based on various millions of tourists from all over the world, others
factors, involving global geopolitical dynamics, do not (or not yet) achieve national or international
global mobilities (information, migrant flows, etc.), recognition, but may be of great importance to a
economic globalization and the role of a global limited number of people. For example, the gulags
culture (cinema), and, of course, the global diffusion or places of Stalinist massacres have long remained
of tourism linked to the growing importance of this mostly invisible in the tourism geography of
sector in many economies, the democratization Eastern Europe (Bechtel, Jurgenson, 2013): it took
of travelling and the modernization of transport. many years and major geopolitical changes, such
Major international organizations such as UNESCO as the transformation of the Soviet political system
and networks structuring certain diasporas are also and the opening of the Iron Curtain allowing new
involved in the globalization of certain memories tourist mobilities, for some of them, become tourist
Arromanche, France, 2013, the commodification
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