In "Niche Tourism" dark tourism is defined as "visitations to places where tragedies or historically noteworthy death has occurred and that continue to impact our lives".
Philip R. Stone, Editor of Dark Tourism Forum describes lists various forms and subsets, among them: Holocaust tourism, battlefield tourism, cemetery tourism, slavery-heritage tourism and prison tourism.
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Dark tourism resources
- The Dark Tourism Forum
- The Dark Tourism Forum is the premier online academic resource facility for dark tourism, holocaust tourism, cemetery tourism, prison tourism, battlefield tourism, and slavery heritage tourism.
- Dracula heads for Bucharest
- BBC News (2003).
- A Theme Park for Dracula?
- KLM, Inc.
- Holocaust Tourism
- Sunday Business Post.
- Cemetery Heritage and Ecology Trail
- Salford City Council.
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Books on dark tourism - from Amazon.com
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