Event: Dark Tourism: Death and Travel Presentation
Date: Apr 7, 2025
Time: 11:50am - 1:15pm
Location: Virtual
Description:
When: April 7
Time: 11:50 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Where: Virtually (reach out to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at olli@gmu.edu for the link to join)
Explore some of the world’s darkest tourism sites through the lens of history, heritage, and the human obsession with morbidity with Tourism and Events Management professor Sue Slocum.
Dark tourism, or travel to sites of death and suffering, is on the rise globally. Let us take a tour of some internationally renowned dark tourism sites, while exploring why visitors are drawn to such sites, how communities engage with dark histories, and the economic, social, environmental, and political controversies surrounding these attractions. While the commodification of such sites has garnished negative attention to dark tourism, social science has uncovered deep spiritual significance and connections with historic victims of genocides, marginalization, forced subjugation, natural disasters, and tragic accidents.
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