Dark Tourism

The University of Central Lancashire has launched an academic centre to explore why people visit macabre destinations around the world.  Dark Tourism is travel associated with death, tragedy amd disaster.  The centre hopes to become a global centre for research to offer guidance to managers of macabre attractions.  For more information, visit http://www.uclan.ac.uk/news/launch_world_first_academic_centre_for_dark_tourism_research.php