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Dark tourism refers to a type of tourism focused on observing artifacts of death, disaster, and destruction. Examples of dark tourism spots include battlefields, prisons, graveyards, crime scenes, concentration camps, natural disasters sites, and macabre-themed museums. Popular dark tourism destinations around the world include the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, the World Trade Center site in New York, and the catacombs of Rome. Referred to as thanatourism by most academics, Scottish professors John Lennon and Malcolm Foley first coined the term dark tourism in 1996. The subject experienced great inquiry throughout the twenty-first century as scholars began focusing on the ethics of dark tourism. |
