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Dark tourism (also black tourism or grief tourism) has been defined as tourism involving travel to places historically associated with death and tragedy.〔 More recently, it was suggested that the concept should also include reasons tourists visit that site, since the site's attributes alone may not make a visitor a "dark tourist".〔 Thanatourism, derived from the ancient Greek word ''thanatos'' for the personification of death, refers more specifically to violent death; it is used in fewer contexts than the terms ''dark tourism'' and ''grief tourism''. The main attraction to dark locations is their historical value rather than their associations with death and suffering.〔 ==Field of study== While there is a long tradition of people visiting recent and ancient settings of death like travel to gladiator games in the Roman colosseum, attending public executions by decapitation for example, and visiting the catacombs, this has been studied academically only relatively recently. Travel writers were the first to describe their tourism to deadly places like P.J. O'Rourke who called his travel to Warsaw, Managua, and Belfast in 1988 ‘holidays in hell’, or Chris Rojek talking about ‘black-spot’ tourism in 1993 or the ‘milking the macabre’ Academic attention to the subject originated in Glasgow, Scotland: The term 'dark tourism' was coined in 1996 by Lennon and Foley, two faculty members of the Department of Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure Management at Glasgow Caledonian University, and the term 'thanatourism' was first mentioned by A.V. Seaton in 1996, then Professor of Tourism Marketing at the University of Strathclyde. As of 2014, innumerable studies on definitions, subcategorizations, like Holocaust tourism, slavery-heritage tourism etc, and labels exist, and the term continues to be molded outside academia by authors of travel literature. There is very little empirical research on the perspective of the dark tourist. Dark tourism has been formally studied from three main perspectives by a variety of different disciplines: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「dark tourism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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