Dark tourism: Balancing education and memorialization with commodification –
A rise in dark tourism—where travelers visit historical sites of death and disaster—is creating ethical challenges for authorities. Site managers should tread carefully to avoid trivializing the event being memorialized. Dark destinations can vary from sites of death such as graves, cemeteries, mausoleums, ossuaries or tombs, to sites of killings such as assassination sites, sites of mass death, battlefields, and genocide. Fascination with sites of death and destruction is neither new nor a specifically Western phenomenon. Nevertheless, touristic visitations to sites […]
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