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    Dark tourism involves visiting sites associated with tragic events where many people were killed or injured, such as Chernobyl, the Hiroshima bombing site, Pompeii after the volcanic eruption, the Auschwitz concentration camp, and the 9/11 memorial. These dark tourism sites provide an opportunity for more mature tourists to pay respects or learn about accidents and disasters that have shaped history. Examples given are the sites from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the buried city of Pompeii after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the Auschwitz concentration camp, and New York City's 9/11 memorial.

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    Dark tourism involves visiting sites associated with tragic events where many people were killed or injured, such as Chernobyl, the Hiroshima bombing site, Pompeii after the volcanic eruption, the Auschwitz concentration camp, and the 9/11 memorial. These dark tourism sites provide an opportunity for more mature tourists to pay respects or learn about accidents and disasters that have shaped history. Examples given are the sites from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the buried city of Pompeii after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the Auschwitz concentration camp, and New York City's 9/11 memorial.

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    Dark Tourism

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    Dark tourism involves visiting sites associated with tragic events where many people were killed or injured, such as Chernobyl, the Hiroshima bombing site, Pompeii after the volcanic eruption, the Auschwitz concentration camp, and the 9/11 memorial. These dark tourism sites provide an opportunity for more mature tourists to pay respects or learn about accidents and disasters that have shaped history. Examples given are the sites from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the buried city of Pompeii after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the Auschwitz concentration camp, and New York City's 9/11 memorial.

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    Specialist tourism: dark tourism

    What is it?
    Dark tourism is a type of tourism where you visit sights of previous accidents or bad
    events usually where many people were killed or injured. The target audience is
    usually older more mature people looking to pay their respects or learn more.

    Dark tourism sights (examples)


    Chernobyl
    Chernobyl is the sight of an explode nuclear reactor plant where
    many people were killed in initial blast but many where also killed in
    the aftermath from all the radiation and the effects of this Russian
    explosion can be seen all he way up to Scandinavia

    Hiroshima bombing site


    Hiroshima is the bombing site of a Japanese city that was bombed by
    a nuclear bomb during WW2 this completely flattened the city and
    killed 135,000 people.

    Pompei is a city that was buried in ash after the volcano Mount
    Vesuvius exploded the ash complete buried everything and froze
    the city in time.

    Pompei volcano explosion


    Concentration camp Auschwitz
    9/11 memorial
    Auschwitz is a polish camp that was used to torture 1.3 million
    Jews during the second world war you can see these ruins
    today.
    The 9/11 memorial is a dug in fountain the footprint of one of
    the towers that collapsed in the plane crash of 9/11

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