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Dark tourism, explained: Why visitors flock to sites of tragedy
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1695" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://durangoherald.com/articles/303812-dark-tourism-explained-why-visitors-flock-to-sites-of-tragedy" target="_blank"><strong>Dark tourism, explained: Why visitors flock to sites of tragedy - Durango Herald</strong></a></p><p></p><p>Every year, millions of tourists around the world venture to some of the unhappiest places on Earth: sites of atrocities, accidents, natural disasters or infamous death. From Auschwitz to Chernobyl, Gettysburg, the site of the Kennedy assassination and the Sept. 11 Memorial in New York, visitors are making the worst parts of history a piece of their vacation, if not the entire point.</p><p></p><p>Experts call the phenomenon dark tourism, and they say it has a long tradition. Dark tourism refers to visiting places where some of the darkest events of human history have unfolded. That can include genocide, assassination, incarceration, ethnic cleansing, war or disaster – either natural or accidental. Some might associate the idea with ghost stories and scares, but those who study the practice say it’s unrelated to fear or supernatural elements.</p><p></p><p>“It’s not a new phenomenon,” says J. John Lennon, a professor of tourism at Glasgow Caledonian University, in Scotland, who coined the term with a colleague in 1996. “There’s evidence that dark tourism goes back to the Battle of Waterloo where people watched from their carriages the battle taking place.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1695, member: 1"] [URL='https://durangoherald.com/articles/303812-dark-tourism-explained-why-visitors-flock-to-sites-of-tragedy'][B]Dark tourism, explained: Why visitors flock to sites of tragedy - Durango Herald[/B][/URL] Every year, millions of tourists around the world venture to some of the unhappiest places on Earth: sites of atrocities, accidents, natural disasters or infamous death. From Auschwitz to Chernobyl, Gettysburg, the site of the Kennedy assassination and the Sept. 11 Memorial in New York, visitors are making the worst parts of history a piece of their vacation, if not the entire point. Experts call the phenomenon dark tourism, and they say it has a long tradition. Dark tourism refers to visiting places where some of the darkest events of human history have unfolded. That can include genocide, assassination, incarceration, ethnic cleansing, war or disaster – either natural or accidental. Some might associate the idea with ghost stories and scares, but those who study the practice say it’s unrelated to fear or supernatural elements. “It’s not a new phenomenon,” says J. John Lennon, a professor of tourism at Glasgow Caledonian University, in Scotland, who coined the term with a colleague in 1996. “There’s evidence that dark tourism goes back to the Battle of Waterloo where people watched from their carriages the battle taking place.” [/QUOTE]
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