In recent years there has been growth in both the practice and research of dark tourism--the phenomenon of visiting sites of tragedy or disaster.
Expanding on this trend, this book examines dark tourism through the new lens of pilgrimage.
It focuses on dark tourism sites as pilgrimage destinations, dark tourists as pilgrims, and pilgrimage as a form of dark tourism.
Taking a broad definition of pilgrimage so as to consider aspects of both religious and non-religious travel that might be consi.