disaster tourism

English

Noun

disaster tourism (uncountable)

1. The practice of visiting locations at which an environmental disaster, either natural or human-made, has occurred.

   Near-synonym: dark tourism

   • 2023, Maximiliano E. Korstanje, Hugues Séraphin, Vanessa G. B. Gowreesunkar, editors, Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Tourism‎^[1], 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN:

     As a vehicle towards reconstruction, disaster tourism allows rapid recovery and further financially-aid programs for affected communities. Hence post-disaster marketing offers a fertile ground to the exploration of new horizons of research, which made pain its main commodity.

Related terms

• disaster tourist

Translations

Translations

• Afrikaans: ramptoerisme
• Dutch: ramptoerisme n
• Finnish: katastrofiturismi, katastrofimatkailu
• French: tourisme de catastrophe (fr) m
• German: Katastrophentourismus m
• Polish: turystyka katastroficzna f

See also

• voyeurism