a person who travels specifically to visit the scene of a tragedy or disaster
Dark Tourist stars Michael Cudlitz, my favorite “Southland” cop as well, as a “grief tourist” obsessed with visiting the scenes of tragedy or disaster.
Submitted by: Kerry from United Kingdom on 16/03/2016
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An earlier term for grief tourism is the phrase dark tourism, coined in 1997 to describe the phenomenon of people travelling to the scene of a tragedy or disaster to see for themselves the place where it happened.