DARK TOURISM

Death, Dying and the Consumption of Dark Tourism

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Abstract

The paper aims to discuss the concept of dark tourism, its origins, current relationship with the wider tourism, festival and exhibition markets. Despite the increasing attention of academic bit deep understanding of travel, especially in terms of consumption. The literature primarily focuses on the provision of dark tourism. Relying on contemporary sociology of death, we will explore the relationship between socio-cultural perspectives on death and the dark potential of tourism way to face death in modern societies. To do this, we propose thanatological dark tourism consumption model as a basis for further analysis of theoretical and empirical dark tourism. Modern tourism is undeniably fascinated by all the events connected with death, like funeral rites practiced in many places. Having cleared the conceptual terrain (thanatourism) we will focus more specifically to a general view of dark tourism.

Death, Dying and the Consumption of Dark Tourism

Many people have always been attracted by death and ulterior. It's a morbid attraction to see the suffering of others and perhaps to become accomplices or perpetrators of parental star of the terrifying situation. The dark side of life always attracts the curious, specifically many onlookers. This thirst for emotions frightening or tragic has resulted in numerous ways to satisfy it; one of them is dark tourism.

Dark Tourism involves visiting cemeteries and burials, as well as visits to places of disasters (environmental or man-made) disasters and mass casualties with deep historical roots. Since the travellers began to visit places associated with death and destruction gradually became the concept of "dark tourism". By "dark places of interest" experts carry Pompeii, the pyramids of Egypt, a memorial monument on the site of the World Trade Centre in New York, as well as places and natural disasters, and even the usual tour of the cemeteries. In addition, the practice of many domestic and foreign travel agencies shows that tourists are often activated after the hurricanes, typhoons, tsunamis and other natural disasters.

There are several theories explaining why people are attracted to someone else's grief. Some researchers argue that during a visit to such places people do not get scared, and feel a sense of exhilaration. Others believe that the fear and the thrill occasionally require a person to then "free" from the awful spectacle to experience euphoria (MacCannell, 1989, pp. 55). There is also a view that some people just love to be frightened, and cherish frightening moments of the lives of others gives them pleasure. Experts point out that the main problem that arose with the advent of this trend - is a combination of tourists to places of interest in death, with questions of ethics and the interests of travel agencies.

Taking into account these trends in tourism, a few years ago, French explorer Bertrand Beyern published a book with a description of some 7 thousand graves, and an indication of their location. The writer tried to help readers answer two questions; where is that celebrity buried, and what ...