“Dark tourism is bound up in contested memory ... Poland and are open almost every day of the year. The Chernobyl nuclear power disaster in 1986 forced around 350,000 people to eventually ...

but thrillseekers can visit Chernobyl (and many similar places like it) after its radiation levels were deemed safe enough to allow for tourism. As one of the world's most infamous disaster sites ...

Read more: How dangerous is it to visit Chernobyl? We asked a nuclear-waste expert involved in the cleanup. For decades, the tourists who did come to the area were only permitted to observe the ...

The Chernobyl zone saw its tourism increase twofold after the lauded television miniseries of 2019 and officials hope that level of interest will continue, or grow, once the global pandemic has ...

Some popular examples of dark tourism are Chernobyl, the 9/11 memorial and the concentration camp Auschwitz. J. John Lennon, a professor of tourism at Glasgow Caledonian University, who coined the ...

Travelers seeking the eerie and unexplained can explore destinations like Aokigahara Forest, Bhangarh Fort, and Chernobyl.

MOSCOW, July 11. /TASS/. Expanding tourist capacity in the Chernobyl zone requires meaningful steps to ensure the security of visitors, independent Russian expert on nuclear power, Atominfo portal ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...

Thrilling horror about the dangers of extreme tourism… in Chernobyl. An offbeat guide leads six holidaymakers into the town that’s been deserted for 25 years. But are they alone?