An Analysis of Dark Tourism: Sites, Motivations, and Issues

This essay provides an overview of dark tourism, a novel concept involving visits to sites associated with death, disaster, and the macabre. It explores the motivations of tourists, who are drawn to locations of war, tragedy, and atrocities. The essay examines the shift in tourism from traditional attractions to sites of suffering and the ethical issues that arise, especially with the growth of 'horror tourism.' It considers the challenges of balancing historical preservation with consumer experiences and the potential for exploitation. The essay also discusses the demand for dark tourism, highlighting the interest in personal stories and the need for ethical sensitivity. References from key scholars in the field support the analysis.

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Dark tourism as simplified is the kind of tourism which constitutes a stopover to the
recreated or the actual places which is related with the demise, bad luck or the macabre which is
a very novel concept and even from the opinion or view of the tourist. The places of the war,
disaster death, as well as atrocities, is fascinated by the humans are subjected to the visit (Baum,
2013). The persons have extended been haggard to the otherwise and magnetisms are related to
the way and with the suffering, death atrocities which are fascinated by the persons and the topic
to the stopovers. People have long been drawn towards the sites, attraction and are linked to one
another with the death, distress ferocity or the tragedy (Wang, 1999). The motivation of the
tourist and the destination are no lengthier connected to the old-style seashore and mountain
stories. The concept of pleasant change in enjoyable places is now changing, and the tourism
market has been broadening, which is becoming more multifaceted and even rare. The case of
dark tourism is measured a phenomenon which includes the performance as well as the
consumption by the visitors and the real and the adapted death and the adversity sites.
With the popularity of the tourism in the horror space, the ethical issues surrounding the
concept of the dark tourism have been in the growth in the ‘horror tourism’ in the market and the
ethical issues which are surrounding in need of the questions (UNWTO United Nations World
Tourism Organization, 2011). With the customers and the benefactors who are taking part in the
development of dark tourism with together the potential contesting. The providers mean of the
preservation of the history is to charge people in order to maintain the preservation of the history
and to keep the charge in order to maintain the upkeep and the consumers in the money scheme
which is the expenditure of the departed lives in the sites (Ferguson & Alarcon,2015). The wage-
earners mean of letting the people in antiquity finished the understanding of the vulgar images
and vulgar seem to be dishonestly distasteful for the customers. Therefore using Stone shades in

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the darkness spectrum tool and it is a measurement for the dissimilar levels of the dark tourism
sites which are the chief issues and is critically inspected in the depth
Dark tourism can be said as the demand of the consumer which is rather than the demand
of the explanation of the interest and the demand for the audiences which is a dark sector in the
function of the tourism. Several scholars have said that the existence of dark tourism is maybe
because of the high demand for dark tourism (Sharpley, 2018). The consumers are both
interested in the tragedies and in the real meaning, which is need of the explanation and through
the personal stories which is caught up in the situation. Though the consumer is interested in
personal storytelling, however ethically the consumers should be sensitive enough to know the
reaction of the opposite parties.

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