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dark tourism

dark tourism noun: recreational travel to view the sites of former atrocities.

Noun

dark tourism (uncountable)

  1. Recreational travel to view the sites of former atrocities.
    • The growing popularity of dark tourism suggests more and more people are resisting vacations that promise escapism, choosing instead to witness firsthand the sites of suffering they have only read about, said Gareth Johnson, a founder of Young Pioneer Tours, which organized trips for Ms. Joyce and...2022 October 28, Maria Cramer, “Beaches? Cruises? ‘Dark’ Tourists Prefer the Gloomy and Macabre”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    • Despite the rise in popularity of "dark tourism," a term describing travelers' visiting locations associated with death and tragedy, some in Guyana are skeptical about the tour that will take visitors to such a morbid site.2024 December 12, Gabriella Rudy, Guad Venegas, “Jonestown Massacre site to reopen as tourist destination in Guyana”, in NBC News
    Synonyms:
    black tourism, grief tourism, thanatourism

Synonyms of dark tourism

Questions about dark tourism

What does dark tourism mean?
Dark tourism means recreational travel to view the sites of former atrocities.
What part of speech is dark tourism?
Dark tourism is a noun.

Words near dark tourism in the dictionary

  1. dark store
  2. dark stores
  3. dark territories
  4. dark territory
  5. dark thirty
  6. dark tourism
  7. dark tourist
  8. dark tourists
  9. dark traffic
  10. dark triad
  11. dark up

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