disaster tourism

English

Noun

disaster tourism (uncountable)

  1. The practice of visiting locations at which an environmental disaster, either natural or human-made, has occurred.
    Near-synonym: dark tourism
    • 2023, Maximiliano E. Korstanje, Hugues Séraphin, Vanessa G. B. Gowreesunkar, editors, Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Tourism‎, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN:
      As a vehicle towards reconstruction, disaster tourism allows rapid recovery and further financially-aid programs for affected communities. Hence post-disaster marketing offers a fertile ground to the exploration of new horizons of research, which made pain its main commodity.

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