DARK TOURISM

INDEXWhat is Dark TourismTypes of dark tourism Reasons why people do dark tourism Which kind of client does dark tourism Destinations for dark tourism Which companies sell dark tourism Photos

WHAT IS DARK TOURISM?Dark tourism (also black tourism or grief tourism) is

tourism that includes travelling to places associated with death and suffering.

If you have ever been to the world war battlefields in northern France, the site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York, a Holocaust museum or even a military cemetery, then you've participated — perhaps unknowingly — in dark tourism.

This term was first used in 1996.For tourism researchers, The most attractive point of

dark tourism is, it concentrates on personal characteristic of tourists instead of destination.

TYPES OF DARK TOURISM

Grief TourismPoverty TourismDisaster TourismSuicide TourismDoomsday Tourism

MOTIVATIONS TO DO DARK TOURISM

To do something different.To do something dark.To relive the experiences of their relatives.To be aware of the importance of the disasters try to help

with the incomes they bring to the country.Inheritance ( they visit dark tourism destinations because

of their personal past. E.g american soldiers who visited Vietnam after many years of war.)

Guiltiness devoted to history

WHICH KIND OF CLIENT DOES DARK TOURISM?Opaque dark travellers:they visit places related to death

eventually e.g pyramids of EgyptDark travellers: They travel to places related to war. E.g

Canakkale(Turkey) Very dark travellers: Monuments to death. Like

Graveyards.eg: Prague, Jewish CemeteryVery very dark travellers: Visit places where many people

died. E.g concentration fields in Auschwitz-Birkenau(Poland).

Darkest travellers: Travel to see people suffer Or die. Places that suffered a catastrophe and they’re still recovering from it. E.g in New Orleans hurricane katrina.

DESTINATIONS FOR DARK TOURISM

United Kingdom London’s Dungeon Romania Dracula’s CastleGermany ColditzThailand Tsunami DisasterUkranie ChernobylPoland Auswitch Concentration FieldsVietnam (VietnamWar)

Grief Tourism: Basically, grief tourism can be define as being when you travel somewhere to visit a scene of some tragic event. E.g. ground zero NYC.

Poverty Tourism: Tourism based in seeing how the other half live: the very poor. Poverty tourism usually features tours to slum areas and poverty stricken towns. Some claim to help these poor by using profits.

Disaster

Tourism:

It is a type of

tourism related

with natural

disasters. Eg Visit

south-east Asia

following the 2004

tsunami crisis, or

people traveling to

New Orleans to

see the aftermath

of Hurricane

Katrina, are both

examples of

disaster tourism.

Doomsday

Tourism: Refers

to the thinking that

you should hurry

up and visit

particular places

which are under

threat, usually as

a result of environmental

problems and

global warming.

Suicide Tourism: This particularly dark side of dark tourism generally takes two forms. The first involves people traveling to a particular destination with the intention of committing suicide, often by jumping from a famous landmark.

A second form of suicide tourism takes into account the various laws related to euthanasia in different countries. For example, in several European countries like Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, active euthanasia is not illegal, and terminally-ill people sometimes travel there to end their life legally

PHOTOSALCATRAZ PRISON

POMPEI

DRACULA’S CASTLE

CAMBODIA

CAMBODIA MUSEUM

CATACOMBS PARIS

AUSWITCH

WHICH COMPANIES DO THIS?Since this type of tourism is very new

there are not too many companies yet. Packages are sold in any agency to the main dark tourism attractions but there are not any companies dedicated to this type of specific tourism.

Catacomb tours, 1 Place Denfert-Rochereau, 14th arrondissement, 75014 Paris, Tel: +33-1-43-22-47-63

THE 7 WONDERS OF DARK TOURISM

Teutoburgo forests ( Sajonia)Castle of Vlad Tepes and tower of Nis

(Serbia)Mayan city in Tikal ( Guatemala)El Alamo in Mexico White Chapel in London Pearl Harbour in HiroshimaAuschwitz in Poland

LINKS RELATED TO DARK TOURISM

http://www.wordspy.com/words/darktourism.asp

http://www.thedungeons.com/http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/10/10

/dark-tourism-more-than-a-spectacle/http://www.vagabondish.com/dark-tourism-

travel-tours/