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Table 2 Thanatourism Typologies [23]

From: Death as attraction: the role of travel medicine and psychological travel health care in ‘dark tourism’

1

Horror Tourism

 

Potential to trivialise death through commodification (shocking and humorous)

- Chambers of horror

- Jack the Ripper

2

Grief Tourism

 

- Arlington, Graceland, assassination sites

3

Hardship Tourism

 

- Slavery, slums, prisons, Robben Island

4

Tragedy Tourism

 

- Accidental or deliberate disasters,

- Ground Zero, Pompeii, Hurricane Katrina

5

Warfare Tourism

 

- Battlefield tours, war museums, battle re-enactments, war memorials

6

Genocide Tourism

 

- Killing fields in Cambodia, Buchenwald

7

Extreme Tourism

 

- Public executions, Bali cremations, restaging of Christ’s crucifixion