Dark tourism is in vogue. It involves travel to sites associated with death, suffering and the seemingly macabre which are all part of the dark tourist’s controversial itinerary.
Daniel B. Bitran is an educator of the Holocaust, and his travel course takes students through Central Europe to a number of Holocaust sites. The aim is to provide students with a hands-on learning experience.
Practitioners, academics, current and prospective students gathered to mark ten years of Leeds Beckett’s Master’s in Responsible Tourism Management and to celebrate the difference the course has made to responsible tourism practice worldwide.
