Dark tourism, also known as grief tourism or thanatourism, is a growing trend in the travel industry where tourists visit sites associated with death, tragedy, and suffering.
From former concentration camps to haunted houses and disaster zones, dark tourism attracts travelers who are curious about the darker side of history and human experience.
The term "dark tourism" was first coined by the academic researcher John Lennon in the 1990s, and it has since become an area of increasing interest among both researchers and travelers. Dark tourism sites can range from museums dedicated to preserving the memory of historical events, such as the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Berlin, to abandoned places like the Pripyat ghost town in Ukraine, which was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
