dark tourism

What is dark tourism and why are we drawn to morbid death sites?

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From Chernobyl to ground zero of the September 11 terrorist attack in New York City, tourists have long flocked to places where some of the darkest events in human history unfolded. Lancashire is one such attraction, with interest in the Pendle Witch Trials of 1612, in which ten people were hanged after being imprisoned in … Read more

Jamaica’s ‘dark tourism’ drive will turn colonial buildings into slavery monuments

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Luxury cruise ships, like this one, docked in Falmouth, Jamaica, will take tourists to learn about a dark side in the history of the British Empire – ISTOCK Jamaica will preserve British colonial sites as slavery monuments to boost the island’s ‘dark tourism’ industry. Local activists have led Caribbean demands for reparations for centuries of … Read more