Interest in dissonant heritage has grown significantly in recent years. Difficult legacies, such as monuments and urban and artistic works, as well as intangible personal and communal experiences are linked to dictatorships, regimes, wars, slavery, and exploitation. In some places, a dissonant heritage creates tension. In other places, difficult histories are cancelled or ignored. But forgetting is not the solution. Critical analysis can help us ‘face the past’ and process it in order to move forward. This applies to tourism as well: ‘Difficult’ places, monuments and experiences become opportunities for gaining and creating knowledge for a public interested in historical issues. At the same time, tourist presence is an incentive for communities to better comprehend their contested past(s). This volume contains contributions by scholars from various countries and different backgrounds, such as historians, architects, and anthropologists, who deal with this topic from different angles. The volume is divided into two parts: the first part concentrates on Italy, while the second part covers other countries in the world.

Maria Paola Pasini, Ph. D, adjunct professor in economic history at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. She teaches tourism history and international tourism communication at the Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Humanities at the Brescia campus.Luciano Maffi, Ph.D in economic history. He is Professor in Economic and Global History at the University of Parma and has previously held positions at the University of Salento, Bocconi University, University of Genoa, and University of Brescia.Giovanni Gregorini, Full Professor of Economic History at the Catholic University of Milan, where he heads the Department of History and Philology. His research interests include public finance in the XVII century State of Milan and the history of Lombard banking and finance in the XIX and XX centuries.

Introduction
The Sustainability of Memory: Dissonant Heritage in Tourism - Maria Paola Pasini, Luciano Maffi, Giovanni Gregorini
The Social Republic on Lake Garda: From Collective Amnesia to the Critical Reassessment of a Difficult Heritage in Tourism. A “Diffuse Museum” Project - Maria Paola Pasini, Luciano Maffi
The Seaplane Base at Desenzano: History, Oblivion, New Proposals - Massimo Tedeschi
Re-Semanticising Dissonant Fascist Architecture: Twentieth-Century History through Arts in the Arengario Palace, Milan - Ilaria Fuso, Matteo Gregorini, Federico Versari
Creating an Educational Tourism Product for Dissonant Heritage in Forlì: A Co-construction by Local Students and Associations - Claudia Castellucci, Patrick Leech, Cristina Lentini
Exporting Italian Architecture: Libya’s Colonial Legacy between Dissonant Heritage and Tourist Opportunity - Francesca Tanghetti, Carlotta Coccoli, Alberto Arenghi
Dissonant Heritage between the Lines: Southern Africa in Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives - Martino Lorenzo Fagnani
The Power of History: Can We Forget Our Past? The Role of South African Dissonant Monuments in Tourism - Lorenzo Pietro Zani
Leopold’s Legacy: (Un)covering Controversial Heritage at the Royal Museums of Art and History - Anke Hellebuyck, Gerrit Verhoeven
Contested Heritage in the Spanish-Speaking Countries of the Americas and Its Impact on Tourism - Aurelia Martín Casares
Reconciliation and Tourism: Visitor Reflections on Australian Indigenous Tourism Experiences - Gary Lacey, Victoria Peel
Banalization of Evil? The Communist Heritage in Poland from Rejection to Commercialization - Piotr Podemski
Urban Tourism and Difficult Heritage: Management Challenges and Solutions in the Former Riga Jewish Ghetto Area - Aija van der Steina, Maija Roz.te
Privatizing Yassiada’s Dark Past: From Exile and Adjudication to Desolate Tourism - Yonca Erkan
Staying with the Past: Tourism and Controversy at the Former Prisoner of War Camp of Cultybraggan, Scotland - Suzie Thomas, Julie Delannoy
‘[R]ather a White Elephant’: Narrating the Life of Duff House, Scotland, in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century – From Dereliction to Rehabilitation - Kevin J. James, Gavin R. T. Hughes
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