Dark Tourism
- Recently, Kerala Police asked people to desist from dark tourism, which could hinder rescue efforts in Wayanad.
- Dark tourism (also thanatourism, black tourism, morbid tourism, or grief tourism) has been defined as tourism involving travel to places historically associated with death and tragedy.
- Dark tourism sites are all associated with tragic history. These sites might include cemeteries, mausoleums, disaster zones, battlefields, memorials, prisons, execution sites, and crime scenes.
- 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”.
- Prominent dark tourism sites include ....
