Grief tourism is one of the special tourism for social services people and also for journalists. Since this tourism plan your travel to the area affected by natural disasters and also to the places where people were murdered. Normal people can’t go to such places without proper permission. In that case grief tourism will make all arrangements to travel such places. This helps many social services and journalist to do their work.

It is one of the ways to serve people of such places through them. Grief tourism also called dark tourism since they travel to places which are affected by natural calamities. Grief tourism also called disaster tourism since they travel to the places affected by natural disaster. Some of such affected places plan by them is hurricane Katrina the states along the Gulf Coast of the U.S. have a reason to fear the onset of hurricane season and the inevitable disasters that occur.

Thanatourism is a difficult word to define. It is derived from the Ancient Greek word Thanatos in mythology, for the personification of death. Thanatourism is an extreme form of grief tourism that involves the dark contemplation of death at the time of its occurrence.

Posted: January 21st, 2010 under Tourism.
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