Dark TourismAn Immoral Promotion of Death & Disaster?

UNIV*1200 – Sections 1 and 2 – Winter 2016

Tourism that involves travelling to places associated with death and suffering

Higher political Lower politicalinfluence & ideology influence & ideology

Sites of death Sites associated withand suffering with death and suffering

DARKEST DARKER DARK LIGHT LIGHTER LIGHTESTEducation EntertainmentOrientation Orientation

Hitory centric Heritage(conservation/ (commercial/

commemorative) romanticism)

Perceived authentic Perceived inauthenticproduct interpretation product interpretation

Location Non-Locationauthenticity authenticity

Shorter time-scale Longer time-scalefrom the event from the event

Supply Supply(non-purposefulness) (purposefulness)

Lower tourism Higher tourisminfrastructure infrastructure

Categorization of Dark TourismDivisionPerilous Places Towns of horrorDangerous destination from the past and present Dangerous Situations

House of HorrorBuilding associated with death and horror, Dungeons of deatheither actual or represented Heinous hotels

Fields of Fatality Bloody battlegroundsAreas/land commemorating death, fear, fame or The Hell of Holocaustinfamy Cemeteries of Celebrities

Tours of torment Mayhem and murderTours/visits to attractons associated with death, The Now Notoriousmurder and mayhem

Themed thanatos Morbid MuseumsCollections/museums themes around death and Monuments to Moralitysuffering

(from Dann, 1998)