‘Dark tourism’ is attracting visitors to war zones and sites of atrocities in Israel and Ukraine. Why?
- Written by Juliet Rogers, Associate Professor Criminology, The University of Melbourne
There is a disturbing trend of people travelling to the sadder places of the world: sites of military attacks, war zones and disasters. Dark tourism is now a phenomenon, with its own website and dedicated tour guides. People visit these places to mourn, or to remember and honour the dead. But sometimes they just want to look, and sometimes they...