GENOCIDE TOURISM SUBTYPE OF DARK TOURISM

Abstract

Genocide tourism is a subtype of dark tourism, along with atrocious tourism, cemetery tourism, prison tourism, Holocaust tourism, slave heritage tourism and thanaturism, being practiced by tourists who travel for cultural-educational purposes, to do not forget the atrocities suffered by the victims, other interested visitors but not directly involved and the relatives or survivors of those who died in those places as a result of crimes committed for the deliberate and systematic purpose of a community or ethnic group and survivors who commemorate those acts, atrocities. Tourists visiting destinations related to forms of dark tourism, have a positive intention, significant and full of emotion, these people consider the action is a challenging experience, strong emotional and full of satisfaction in the sense that they begin to understand the horror and suffering genocide. For the Timis tourist brand, dark tourism has independent forms and genocide tourism includes places of struggle for liberation from communism, battlefields for civil liberties, places that offer representations of suffering and death and places associated with concentration camps.