Dark Tourism
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https://doi.org/10.47494/mesb.v23i.1177Keywords:
Dark Tourism, Chernobyl, Dark Tourism UzbekistanAbstract
This article reviews the research about dark tourism and its concepts and its psychological effects on tourists. Dark tourism is defined as a type of tourism that is associated with death, suffering, misfortune, and tragedy and includes places such as murder sites, battlefields, cemeteries, disasters which are always considered to be fascinating to visit. The aim of this paper is to gain a deeper understanding of dark tourism destinations by analyzing the feelings and emotions of tourists after visiting a dark site. This paper provides a literature review about this product of tourism which thrill plays an important role, and to present dark tourism definitions (concept), evolution, destinations, as well as to introduce typologies and to overlook them.
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Dark tourism and cities
https://researchonline.gcu.ac.uk/en/publications/dark-tourism-and-cities
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