“…Th e term 'dark tourism' (used interchangeably with 'thanatourism') started to be used after Seaton (1996) specifi ed death-related tourist activity as 'thanatourism' and Lennon and Foley (2000) analysed the link between tourism attractions and an interest in death. Since then, there were several major eff orts to conceptualize dark tourism (Sharpley, 2005;Stone, 2006;Wight, 2006;Sharpley & Stone, 2009;Light, 2017); numerous studies have analyzed travelling to destinations that are linked with negative emotions and encounters (Broderick, 2010;Wei, 2012;Coats & Ferguson, 2013;Robinson, 2015;Schafer, 2016;Yan et al, 2016;Allman, 2017;Miller & Del Casino Jr, 2018;Lin et al, 2018). Th e early studies on dark tourism motivations have been signifi cantly disbursed in terms of their focus and factors considered.…”