What is "black tourism"

Black tourism refers to a phenomenon that people travel to places where death, disaster, pain, terrorist incidents or tragedies occur.

Black tourism takes tragic events such as death, disaster and war as the attraction of developing tourism, and uses people's sensitivity and deep memory of death, war, disaster and tragedy to stimulate people's interest in tourism, which is of educational and commemorative significance and can give people spiritual and emotional insights.

This form of tourism, which emphasizes death, disaster, violence and sadness, has gradually become a new feature of foreign tourism. Many people are willing to spend a lot of money to go to third world countries to experience shocking scenes and see unfortunate scenes with their own eyes. Although many people feel sick or incredible about this idea, it has also attracted the love of academia and the media. In Britain, there is even a special website to introduce and discuss black tourism.

Therefore, when the topic of global warming is heated up, more and more people rush to the South Pole or the North Pole to see the melting iceberg, or to see their life in the slums of Brazil, to see the Millennium Bamiyan Buddha destroyed by the war in Afghanistan, and to see the situation after the earthquake in Sichuan. In fact, these are just a kind of dark tourism.

The rise of black tourism in China originated from the opening of Wenchuan earthquake site in Sichuan. At that time, the proposal was put forward by Wang, a member of the Sichuan Provincial Political Consultative Conference and a researcher at the Institute of Regional Economics of the Provincial Academy of Social Sciences. As soon as the proposal was put forward, it aroused social concern and caused great controversy.

Black tourism is to use people's sensitivity and deep memory of death, war, disaster and tragedy to stimulate people's interest in tourism. It has profound educational and commemorative significance for tourists with spiritual and emotional understanding. "5. 12 Wenchuan Earthquake" attracted worldwide attention. Opening earthquake site tourism as soon as possible can promote the overall revitalization of Sichuan tourism and promote the development of local economy.