Journal
TROPICAL DISEASES TRAVEL MEDICINE AND VACCINES
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1186/s40794-021-00149-z
Keywords
Thanatourism; Travel health advice; Travel psychiatry; Travel motivations; Tourist behaviour; Psychological health; Mental health; Travel psychosis; Voyeurism
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Psychological travel health is an evolving field that has yet to be linked to tourist products such as dark tourism which may impact travellers' mental wellbeing. Understanding dark tourism is crucial in order to appreciate the wide variety of potential stimuli that can lead to anything from amusement to travel-related psychoses. Travellers' motivations and emotional responses to visits of 'dark' sites provide important input for individually tailored psychological pre and post-travel health care.
Still an evolving field in travel medicine, psychological travel health has not yet been linked to tourist products that may affect travellers' mental wellbeing. Dark tourism, the travel to sites linked to death, atrocities and suffering, is a product that, on the one hand, attracts people with a keen interest in death-related attractions and, on the other hand, may inflict psychological scars. Of particular concern are travellers with undiagnosed or diagnosed mental illness. This is the first article bringing travel medicine and dark tourism together. Understanding dark tourism is crucial to appreciate the wide variety of potential stimuli leading to anything from amusement to travel-related psychoses. Travellers' motivations for and emotional responses to visits of 'dark' sites provide an important input into individually tailored psychological pre and post-travel health care. Relevant recommendations include suggestions for education, clinical practice and much needed further multidisciplinary research.
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