vated to visit Ground Zero and pay
their respects, remember the tragedy, look for answers and educate
themselves. The media gives them
this merely by reporting the live pictures. We can see how intertwined
the media is with dark tourism. We
watch death on TV with a morbid
curiosity, and now we can actually
go and relive it in our minds in the
very same place.
Whether dark tourism appeals to
you or not, enough people have
the curiosity to explore it and it is
undeniably a big money business.
Maybe this curiosity exists in us
all and we only need a little push.
With the myriad of factors that are
contributing to dark tourism I can
only see it flourishing. Clearly other
people do too - once the Fukushima
Daiichi Power Plant - hit by the 9.0
magnitude earthquake and following tsunami in 2011 - is free of
radiation, the authorities hope to
open it up as the latest dark tourism attraction.
tourism to grow and become more
accepted. It is still a niche market but in twenty years more it
could become mainstream tourism.
Everybody remembers viewing the
Twin Towers going down on the
news and it is an image that will
stay with us forever. It is a hard
hitting one, and can affect people
to such an extent that they can
feel the pain of others and be moti14