Natural Dark Tourism

That can include genocide assassination incarceration ethnic cleansing war or disaster.

Nature based tourism prospectus. Each year millions of so called dark tourists flock to war memorials natural disaster sites and decommissioned prisons around the world to witness what remains of their tragic pasts. It just needs people who are interested in learning about this life and this world five dark tourism sites. Dark tourism refers to visiting places where some of the darkest events of human history have unfolded.

Its a natural human trait to be interested in how the other half live. Of people traveling to sites of death natural. A series of films made between 1927 and 1952 shone a light on the convict ruins of port arthur and helped develop dark tourism in australia.

Dark tourism is the act of travel and visitation to sites attractions and exhibitions which have real or recreated death suffering or the seemingly macabre as a main theme. As a more specific component of dark tourism disaster tourism denotes situations where the tourism product is generated within and from the aftermath of a major disaster or traumatic event. Disaster area tourism partly overlaps with nuclear tourism but also encompasses places of other man made or natural disastersof the latter sites of volcanic destruction pompeii montserrat mount st helens etc tend to remain visitable for longer periods of time after the events whereas the traces of many other kinds of natural disasters such as floods storms fires earthquakes.

Simply put dark tourism spots are those that relate to death. Dark tourism doesnt need dark tourists says stone. Whether the destinations be linked to untimely or violent deaths the spots generally have political or historical significance.

The concept of dark tourism also known as disaster tourism really is ghoulish fad with its focus on recent disaster zones and the chance for firsthand experience of the devastation and anguish of those that still suffer from the repercussions but it is the field that is increasingly popular with tourists and generates an interesting mixed reaction from locals. More recently it was suggested that the concept should also include reasons tourists visit that site since the sites attributes alone may not make a visitor a dark tourist.