“…Furthermore, in their initial research, Foley and Lennon (1996), as well as Seaton (1996) described the concept of dark tourism as travel encounters with death. Besides defining it as a 'dark' one, other authors also researched this type of tourism, labelling it as thanatourism (Christou & Hadjielia Drotarova, 2021;Jagiellonski, 2015;Lee et al, 2011;Lloyd-Parkes et al, 2021), fright tourism (Bristow, 2020;Bristow & Jenkins, 2020;Bristow & Newman, 2004), trauma tourism (Clark, 2006(Clark, , 2009, grief tourism (Lewis, 2008;Sharpley & Stone, 2009), morbid tourism (Blom, 2000;da Silva, 2018) and death tourism (Biran et al, 2014). However, authors, such as Dunkley et al (2007Dunkley et al ( , 2011 and Sun and Lv (2021), summarized the main terms used in the available literature and they indicated that the concept of 'dark tourism' is represented in a majority of such research, considering the fact that it clearly implies the sense of 'darkness' in this unique selective type of tourism, throughout visiting the sites related with death, various types of disaster and human sufferings (Iliev, 2020;Light, 2017).…”