Voyeurism

• Dark tourism allows people to understand tragic events, and potentially experience a catharsis of emotions related to the deaths at a site or even help people respond to collective trauma.
• Commonly known heritage sites include the Unesco world heritage sites – and many nations have their own lists of heritage sites such as archaeological ruins, cathedrals or monasteries and national parks.
• Dark tourism is considered a subset of heritage tourism, because many dark tourism sites are also heritage sites.
• My paper argues that using the interest in virtual dark tourism could be one way for these heritage sites to mitigate some of these challenges.

Why take virtual dark tours?

• Therein lies the appeal of a virtual dark tourism experience on YouTube.
• This genre has expanded to a network of at five to six paranormal investigation teams who are collaborating and producing similar virtual dark tours at a variety of locations across the globe.
• As the audience for this virtual dark tourism content continues to grow, heritage sites at risk may benefit from developing narrative-focused virtual tours or by partnering with influential YouTubers.

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Nicole Basaraba does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

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Opulence and immigrants

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The power of the sea

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• The same two factors - the excess of the voyage, and its defeat by the sea – are now driving the current global interest in the Titan submersible disaster.
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The limits of human knowledge

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