disaster tourism
disaster tourism noun: the practice of visiting locations at which an environmental disaster, either natural or human-made, has occurred.
Noun
disaster tourism (uncountable)
- The practice of visiting locations at which an environmental disaster, either natural or human-made, has occurred.
- Near-synonym: dark tourism
- As a vehicle towards reconstruction, disaster tourism allows rapid recovery and further financially-aid programs for affected communities. Hence post-disaster marketing offers a fertile ground to the exploration of new horizons of research, which made pain its main commodity.2023, Maximiliano E. Korstanje, Hugues Séraphin, Vanessa G. B. Gowreesunkar, editors, Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Tourism, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- dark tourism
Synonyms of disaster tourism
Questions about disaster tourism
- What does disaster tourism mean?
- Disaster tourism means the practice of visiting locations at which an environmental disaster, either natural or human-made, has occurred.
- What part of speech is disaster tourism?
- Disaster tourism is a noun.
Words near disaster tourism in the dictionary
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