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Dark tourism : the dark side of the earth ? . It has become increasingly apparent that so-called « Dark Tourism » has been on the rise, socially and culturally, for the past few years. Hundreds of thousands of « tourists » are travelling across the planet to visit sites of either political terror or of memorable battles, always associated with human suffering. For a while now, the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp-museum has been the destination for more than a million visitors per year ; however, Goree Island in Senegal, the Port-Arthur penal colony in Tasmania or the Holocaust Museum in Washington continue, mutatis mutandis, to attract similarly high numbers. From Asia to South Africa via Rwanda, from Poland to Buenos-Aires or Nanking, there is a plethora of such sites. Does this phenomenon reflect the exotic allure of the past, one to which the memorial scenography produces an illusion of proximity ? Does the word « tourism » reduce the complexity of the numerous motivations and practices of groups or individuals who visit memorial and historical sites ?.
