Dark Tourism

Dark Tourism is a concept related to tourist travel to the location or place associated with events that bring tragedy or cruelty or death. Dark Tourism also called as Thanatourism, where Thanatourism derived from the word Greek word thanatos for the personification of death, refers more specifically to violent death, it is used in fewer contexts than the terms 'dark tourism' and 'grief tourism'. The main draw to dark locations is their historical value rather than their associations with death and suffering. In an article that quoted from the pages of The Independent, Professor John Lennon, director of the Moffat Centre for Travel and Tourism Business Development at Glasgow, who coined the term "Dark Tourism" among tourists believe that this kind of hate to imagine how they might react to the disaster.

So Dark tourism is tourism involving travel to sites historically associated with death and tragedy.

My opinion about this, all the events or occurrences have another side interesting story. But, we have to remember there is fact also that must delivered to tourists participate so that they keep knowing about actual historical events. In addition to bringing the tourists, the cast of dark tourism is also important to document history. Indonesia itself has a lot of track record associated with the concept of dark tourism, for example about Tsunami in Aceh.