Rudi Hartmann

Senior Instructor
Ph.D., Technical University of Munich, 1983

Office: NC 3107-B
Phone: 303.556.5296
E-mail: rudi.hartmann@ucdenver.edu

Areas of Interest:

World Regional Geography, Europe, China, Colorado, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Tourism Planning, Geographic Education

Teaching

• World Regional Geography
• Geography of Colorado
• Geography of Europe
• Geography of China
• Geography of Tourism

Current Research

• Sustainable tourism planning;
• Tourism to Holocaust memorial sites and sites of atrocities;
• Geographic education;
• Heritage Tourism Initiatives for Southeast Colorado, CLAS ACT Grant
• Teaching the Geography of China, Collaboration with Beijing Normal University, China
• The Sustainable Resort in International Perspective: Theory, Planning and Practice (Conference Project)

DIScuSSion paper Available "tourism to Places with a Difficult Past: Heritage Tourism, Dissonant Heritage Tourism, Thanatourism, Dark Tourism, Holocaust Tourism" (Rudi Hartmann)

This discussion paper by Dr. Rudi Hartmann reviews recent research trends and concepts in the study of tourism to places with a difficult past. In particular, it discusses four new concepts and/or research traditions which have characterized the debate over the visitation of places/tourism to sites with a ‘shadowed’ past: heritage tourism, dissonant heritage tourism, thanatourism, dark tourism, holocaust tourism. DOWNLOAD HERE.

Select Publications

Rudi Hartmann (ed.) Southeast Colorado Heritage Tourism Report, Denver: Wash Park Media 2009, 180 pp. www.heritagetourismreport

Rudi Hartmann (ed.) Vignettes from South Central Denver, Denver: Wash Park Media 2008, 40 pp.

“Mountain Resort Planning and Development in an Era of Globalization”, New York: Cognizant Communication Corporation 2006, Editors: Thomas Clark, Alison Gill and Rudi Hartmann.

“Horror and Human Tragedy Revisited: The Management of Sites of Atrocities for Tourism”, New York: Cognizant Communication Corporation 2005, Editors: Gregory Ashworth and Rudi Hartmann.

Rudi Hartmann (ed.) The Friends of Dinosaur Ridge 1989-1999 - An Oral History, Morrison, CO 1999, 40 pp.

Klaus Meyer-Arendt and Rudi Hartmann (eds.) Casino Gambling in America: Origins, Patterns, and Impacts, Elmsford, NY: Cognizant Communications Corp. 1998, 270 pp.

Rudi Hartmann "Dealing with Dachau in Geographic Education", in Visions of Land and Community - Geography in Jewish Studies. Harold Brodsky (ed.), College Park: University of Maryland Press 1998, pp. 357-369.

Photo Gallery

Hiking near Independence Pass, 12,000 ft. with wife Kathy