Dark tourism: Drilling the masked knowledge of past misfortunes

 

Dark tourism: Drilling the masked knowledge of past misfortunes

Tagline: Curiosity to visit ruinous place

Tourism of different kinds brightens color on the life canvas of humans. World is full of surprises for species. When analyzing tourism, it is comprehended that people have diverse preferences, choices and tastes to enjoy attractive, natural and unique locations around the globe. Dark tourism is filled with curiosity, digging natural facts about catastrophic incidence and offering opportunities to become alert and plan ahead for future challenges.

Many visitors are eager to travel to places of mass death due to a natural disaster, war, or may be the presence of a paranormal entity to explore unknown facts and information to study and reach some resolutions for mankind in order to avoid such incidence in future.

In modern times, dark tourism is in high demand especially among elite groups. Prosperity does not create thrills in their life. So, they want to plan an adventurous trip to some strange places in human history where dark events can be unfolded. This type of tourism is just for individual thrill and satisfaction.

Reports of submarine tourism in which business tycoons visited to explore interesting facts about the Titanic wreck were really tragic. Such incidences are rare because high level safety and precautions are made in such sensitive trips.

Still dark tourism is gaining fame and millions of people plan their vacation tour for the darkest events of history. An example of a disastrous dark event was Union Carbide Factory, Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), India. In this tragic incident, poisonous gas was released suddenly which affected the lungs of thousands of people living nearby the factory. People reported burning sensations that cause mass deaths immediately. This place is now famed as a dark place in Indian Territory.

Dark tourism is beneficial in social context because it raises funds for sufferers due to massacre or any natural disaster which may enhance sufferer’s living and better education. Another important positive feature of dark destinations is job prospects for local people. Dark tourism also facilitates visitors to know the ancestral stories and events of local people to perform bottomless research. It augments communication skills. Psychologically, visitors are more involved with local people and experience varied emotions such as grief or sadness of victims and learn new concepts of existing society. Dark tourism destinations also boost the morals of visitors such as good understanding, compassion, and courage to trust on occurrence. Such experience will enable researchers to provide authentic feedback to others.  These benefits overpower the demerits or opinion of negative aspects of dark tourist spots. Dark tourism is an exciting tour for passionate visitors to psychologically appraise the disastrous incidence, enhance learning and induce adventures.  

 

Binding opinions:

Tourism has many shades in today’s changing environment. Visitors are inclined toward some exciting experience while visiting special places in their vacations. Therefore, dark tourism has emerged as a popular excursion and is growing rapidly in the arena of tourism. Dark tourism is branded as curious trips to locations of massacre, tragic events, and other mysterious happenings.

Important note:  Above article is created on the basis of experience and environmental inputs. Topic explanation and narrating events are expressions of the writer and any resemblance is coincidence. Writer is not responsible for any disagreement.