Dark tourism

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Dark tourism

Dark tourism (also black tourism or grief tourism) is tourism

Tourism

Tourism is travel for recreational or leisure purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from...
involving travel to sites associated with death

Death

Death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that define a life organism. It refers to both a particular event and to the condition that results thereby....
and suffering

Suffering

Suffering, or pain, is an individual's basic affective experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with harm or threat of harm. Suffering may be qualified as physical, or mental....
. Thanatourism, derived from the Ancient Greek word thanatos
Thanatos

In Greek religion, Th?natos was the Daemon personification of Death and Mortality. He was a minor figure in Greek mythology, often referred to but rarely appearing in person....
for the personification of death, is associated with dark tourism but refers more specifically to violent death; it is used in fewer contexts than the terms dark tourism and grief tourism.

This includes castles and battlefields such as Culloden

Culloden

Culloden may refer to any of the following:*Culloden, Highland, a village in Scotland**The Battle of Culloden, a battle which took place there in 1746...
near Inverness

Inverness

Inverness is a City status in the United Kingdom in northern Scotland. The city is the administrative centre for the Highland Council areas of Scotland, and it is promoted as the capital of the Scottish Highlands....
, Scotland

Scotland

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; sites of disaster

Disaster

File:Post-and-Grant-Avenue.-Look.jpgA disaster is the tragedy of a natural hazard or man-made hazard that negatively affects society or environment ....
, either natural or man made such as Ground Zero

World Trade Center site

The World Trade Center site sits on 16 acres in Lower Manhattan in New York City. The World Trade Center complex stood on the site until the September 11 attacks; Studio Daniel Libeskind, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Silverstein Properties, and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation oversee the reconstruction of the...
in New York

New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
; prisons now open to the public such as Beaumaris Prison in Anglesey

Anglesey

Anglesey is an island and principal areas of Wales off the northwest coast of Wales, with a predominantly Welsh language-speaking population. It is connected to the mainland by two bridges spanning the Menai Strait: the original Menai Suspension Bridge , designed by Thomas Telford in 1826; and the newer reconstructed Britannia Bridge ; which...
, Wales

Wales

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; and purpose built centers such as the London Dungeon

London Dungeon

The London Dungeon is a tourist attraction, based in Tooley Street, London, near London Bridge station about various tortures from the Middle Ages....
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One of the most notorious destinations for dark tourism is the Nazi

Nazism

Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
extermination camp at Auschwitz in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
, Chernobyl

Chernobyl

Chernobyl , or Chornobyl , was a city in northern Ukraine, in the Kyiv Oblast near the border with Belarus.The city was evacuated in 1986 due to the Chernobyl disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which is located 14.5 kilometers north-northwest....
site in ex USSR or Bran Castle

Bran Castle

Bran Castle , situated near Bran, Brasov and in the immediate vicinity of Brasov, is a national monument and landmark in Romania. The Fortification is situated on the border between Transylvania and Wallachia, on Highway 73....
, Poienari Castle

Poienari Castle

Poenari Castle also known as Poenari Citadel , is a ruined castle in Romania, in Arges County on a canyon formed on the Arges River valley, close to the Fagaras Mountains....
in Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
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