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Dark Tourism

August 2022

  • Gjipe Beach Vlore Albania<br>2DR2A32 Gjipe Beach Vlore Albania

    Beaches, mountains, ancient towns and low prices? Albania has it all

    Despite its dark 20th-century past, the country is now a traveller’s paradise of amazing landscapes, coast and historic cities

October 2021

  • Day and night of Bristol skyline and clifton suspension bridge<br>A day night blend of the Bristol skyline with the Clifton suspension bridge

    Bristol’s slave trade history laid bare on a Black History Month tour

    A year after the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was toppled in Bristol, we join a historic walking tour that ‘helps us understand the present’

November 2020

  • The Guardian documentary
    Colette: former French Resistance member confronts fascism and family trauma after 75 years

    On the anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg trials, 90-year-old Colette Marin-Catherine confronts her past by visiting the German concentration camp where the Nazis killed her brother.

October 2020

  • The new Bodmin jail attraction uses special effects to chart the lives and deaths of former inmates.

    Inside the revamped Bodmin jail, one of Britain's 'most haunted' buildings

    18th-century prison with gory history reopens as £8.5m visitor attraction in Cornwall

November 2019

  • A Russian orchestra plays in the ruins of Palmyra in 2016 after the city was recaptured by Syrian forces

    Concern over rise in dark tourism in Syria as war enters ninth year

    Attempts to reopen country to visitors have been met with criticism from some locals

October 2013

  • Dorothea Puente house tour

    Dark tourism: why murder sites and disaster zones are proving popular

    Chilling and macabre experiences aren't just for Halloween. There's an increasing demand from tourists to visit the locations of some of the world's most horrific events

November 2006

  • Belfast and Beirut tipped as 'must-see' cities

    Belfast and Beirut have been recommended as hot destinations for 2007 in a new Lonely Planet guide published today.

August 2006

  • Forever England

    For some, the Battle of the Somme has never ended. Gwyn Topham spends a night in the trenches at English Heritage's latest attraction.

December 2005

  • Wise to the streets

    Voyeurism or community support project? A new tour delves into the gritty side of Buenos Aires, from the transvestite prostitutes' beat to the city's slums. James Marrison reports.

26 October 2005

  • Tomb raiders

    Beaches and theme parks? Forget it - dark tourism is the new way to enjoy yourself. David Atkinson rounds up five of the world's most popular graveyard destinations.

23 October 2005

  • When it's right to roam

  • Humour and hospitality go with the Territories

  • Living the high life in the Andes

  • Checking in to the Bangkok Hilton

  • 'The risks are definitely worth it'

  • Forget Disneyland kids, we're off to Colditz

  • Journeys into understanding

  • Strange and unsettling: my day trip to Chernobyl

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