Tourism that involves travelling to places associated with death and suffering.
he's planning a project on dark tourism, documenting the increasing popularity of morbid landmarks around the world
Example sentencesExamples
I am currently writing an article on 'dark tourism' and ecocide.
Traveling to the scene of a tragedy is also called dark tourism and the people who do it are said to be jumping on the grief bandwagon.
He suggests people might engage in dark tourism to redress this balance - to explore the meaning of their own mortality and to indulge their curiosity about death in a socially acceptable public context.
We don't want to be just about 'dark tourism', we also want to show off Bethlehem's assets and its 4,000-year history.
If you've ever had the desire to visit a battlefield or some other location where death and tragedy occurred that's a type of traveling called "dark tourism."
The JFK tour is the latest example of 'dark tourism', a new and growing phenomenon that is beginning to attract academic concern.
'Dark tourism', as it's been dubbed, is on the increase, as people around the world fight to ensure the sins of the past are not forgotten.
I have just been reading research suggesting that there is a kind of "dark tourism" associated with attendance at such services.
If you have ever been to the world war battlefields in northern France, a Holocaust museum or even a military cemetery, then you've participated - perhaps unknowingly - in dark tourism.
What are the motivations of these consumers of 'dark tourism'?
He presented his research into dark tourism at the symposium and said he found the event very useful.
Phrases
dark tour
Derivatives
dark tourist
noun
People are desperate to travel to dark sites even if they have never heard about the term dark tourism and have never identified themselves as dark tourists.
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Most of the 'dark tourists' said that viewing the devastation had helped them understand the scale of the tragedy.
Dark tourists can experience emotions that regular tourists don't feel.
In a paper published in the International Journal Of Heritage that year, they noted that the number of dark tourists was growing exponentially.
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phr.
Definition of dark tourism in US English:
dark tourism
noun
Tourism directed to places that are identified with death and suffering.
next time we shall be investigating dark tourism at Chernobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear reactor disaster
Example sentencesExamples
If you've ever had the desire to visit a battlefield or some other location where death and tragedy occurred that's a type of traveling called "dark tourism."
He suggests people might engage in dark tourism to redress this balance - to explore the meaning of their own mortality and to indulge their curiosity about death in a socially acceptable public context.
The JFK tour is the latest example of 'dark tourism', a new and growing phenomenon that is beginning to attract academic concern.
If you have ever been to the world war battlefields in northern France, a Holocaust museum or even a military cemetery, then you've participated - perhaps unknowingly - in dark tourism.
Traveling to the scene of a tragedy is also called dark tourism and the people who do it are said to be jumping on the grief bandwagon.
He presented his research into dark tourism at the symposium and said he found the event very useful.
We don't want to be just about 'dark tourism', we also want to show off Bethlehem's assets and its 4,000-year history.
I am currently writing an article on 'dark tourism' and ecocide.
What are the motivations of these consumers of 'dark tourism'?
'Dark tourism', as it's been dubbed, is on the increase, as people around the world fight to ensure the sins of the past are not forgotten.
I have just been reading research suggesting that there is a kind of "dark tourism" associated with attendance at such services.