Dark Tourism Comes Out of the Shadows

MyTravelResearch.com | May 16, 2016

Dark Tourism is throwing a new light on grim, sinister and sombre places around the world. Pablo Escobar's Medellin, the Killing Fields of Cambodia, Auschwitz, Jack the Ripper's back streets of London, the slavery and apartheid jail cells in Africa, all now attract visitors from afar. Dark Tourism is defined as any travel associated with death, suffering, murder, pain, disaster or the macabre. The increase in such trips and organised tours has led to the establishment of an Institute for Dark Tourism Research. It studies the ethics and complex challenges of a gloomy travel phenomenon that is gathering pace. Not everyone likes the trend....