Internet resources
UPDATE: this section is in serious need of updating and expansion - please bear with me ...
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Again, like with films and books, I can only be very selective here – and provide just a small selection of dark-tourism-related websites:
- www.grief-tourism.com – articles about an eclectic selection of dark-tourism places, of quite variable quality, not a lot has seemed to be going on here for a couple of years now ...
- http://traumatourism.wordpress.com/ - has a fairly long list of dark-tourism places with very short articles and occasional comments (it's a kind of blog), fairly wide-reaching but lacking informational depth.
- www.grief-tourism.com – articles about an eclectic selection of dark-tourism places, of quite variable quality, not a lot has seemed to be going on here for a couple of years now ...
- http://traumatourism.wordpress.com/ - has a fairly long list of dark-tourism places with very short articles and occasional comments (it's a kind of blog), fairly wide-reaching but lacking informational depth.
- www.thecabinet.com/darkdestinations – the title promises a dark tourism travel guide, and it is referenced as that in books like Sharpley/Stone (2009) (who probably didn't take a close enough look), BUT: this site only has a random few proper dark tourism sites (Chernobyl, for instance, or the Sixth Floor Museum), but is far more swamped with mysterious "haunted" sites, film sets and such like (see paranormal and fictional sites under beyond dark tourism), and seems to be targeted more at a primarily North American (teenage?) audience, rather than truly an international dark tourism one of adult travellers.
- http://web.mac.com/jsdart/Site/Dark_tourism.html – a photo site including many images I wouldn't have dared uploading to this site. The spelling of place names is atrocious, though – don't try and use them for reference.
- http://web.mac.com/jsdart/Site/Dark_tourism.html – a photo site including many images I wouldn't have dared uploading to this site. The spelling of place names is atrocious, though – don't try and use them for reference.
--- update July 2012: this site now appeares to have been closed!!!
- www.darktourism.net – also apparently no longer active (nothing there when I last checked), but it may come back … it was a site with a cool dark design and an eclectic collection of articles on rather randomly selected dark tourism sites of a semi-academic nature.
In due course I will expand this short list … but in general I recommend you stay on this website, especially if it is practical information about the dark travel destinations that you are interested in, not so much isolated media snippets or the academic heaviness of theory (but see the concept of dark tourism).
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