Word Talk - Dark tourism

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Dark Tourism

The words in focus are related to the trends in Travel

Dark tourism - Act of travel and visitation to sites, attractions and exhibitions which have real or recreated death, suffering or the seemingly macabre as a main theme.

Types:

1. Grief tourism - Travel somewhere to visit a scene of some tragic event (Eg: Ground Zero, cemetaries etc)

2. Disaster tourism - visit disaster zones – especially when little time has elapsed since the disaster (eg: Onslaught of visitors following some kind of natural disaster, such as those visiting south-east Asia following the 2004 tsunami crisis, or people traveling to New Orleans to see the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina)

3. Poverty tourism - Tours to slum areas and poverty stricken towns.

4. Suicide tourism - categorised into two types:
  1. Traveling to a particular destination with the intention of committing suicide, often by jumping from a famous landmark (Eg: from the Eiffel Tower)
  2. Terminally-ill people travel to countries where euthanasia is not illegal to end their life legally (eg: Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland)

5. Doomsday tourism - Travelers seek out to critically endangered habitats and ecosystems and try to experience their grandeur before they vanish (eg:e Great Barrier Reef, Mount Kilimanjaro and the Galapagos Islands)

(source mainly: http://www.vagabondish.com/)

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