Dark tourism is exactly what it sounds like: travelers who venture to places connected to death, disaster, or human suffering ...

The so-called travel trend of dark tourism has mystified academics and sun-seeking holidaymakers alike for years, as some travellers continue to be compelled to visit places with dark pasts instead of ...

Death, disaster, tragedy, and atrocity are four words commonly associated with dark tourism. Becoming a dark tourist is a controversial, and complex type of travel that some people consider no ...

“Dark tourism is a special type of tourism, which involves visits to tourist attractions and destinations that are associated with death, suffering, disasters and tragedies venues. Visiting dark ...

Travel to places such as Normandy Beach and other spots helped Dr. Chad Scott through his dark times while undergoing a liver transplant. Walking through two cemeteries in Hollywood in 2024 while ...

(CNN) — Fifty years ago, parishioners from Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple in San Francisco began to settle a rural commune in the South American country of Guyana. The Jonestown experiment ended four years ...

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This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. You can sign up here. BERLIN — On a Wednesday afternoon in late August, I traveled to a tourist attraction in the heart of Germany's capital. If I ...

Tourism has taken quite a hit these past 12 months. Economists are reckoning with the fallout. But tourism won’t die. Nor will the tourism of death. Asylums have long been locales for “dark tourism.” ...

When the sun dips below the horizon, something peculiar happens. Most people retreat indoors, switch on Netflix, and call it ...