30, September 2025

A STUDY OF DARK TOURISM SITES IN RAJASTHAN

VOLUME-8; ISSUE-9; SEPT-2025

Author(s): DR.MOHAMMAD USMAN

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Associate prof. in Geography

Astha college, Itawa Kota (Raj.)

Mail ID: usman.bundi@gmail.com

Mobile no.8104111550

 

DOIs:10.2018/SS/202509012     |     Paper ID: SS202509011


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The study of this paper aims to study the various sites of dark tourism in Rajasthan. Tourism means the act and process of spending time away from home in pursuit of recreation, relaxation, and pleasure while making use of the commercial provision. There are many forms of tourism based on the purpose of visit. Dark Tourism or Black Tourism is a type of travel which involves traveling to some places which is historically associated with death or any kind of tragedy. Dark Tourism is an increasingly popular form of tourism over the last few years. Every year, millions of tourists from around the world go to the world worst places. Visitors make the worst part the history a part of their vacation. The main attraction to dark locations is their historical value rather than associations with death and suffering. Holocaust tourism contains aspects of both dark and heritage tourism. There are a lot of places in Rajasthan. This research paper includes references to the promotion of dark tourism in Rajasthan. Dark tourism attractions demonstrate demand but also consist of commemoration, historical references, narrative legacies, and populist heritage tourism sites in some cases become one of few remaining elements of victims and tier testimonies. There is a lot of scope for developing dark tourism in Rajasthan but taking some efforts and specific solutions to developed dark tourism in Rajasthan. For this paper used secondary research methodology has been used for research for data collection, secondary data collected from the literature review also government agency data; online tourism news has been collected. Although the presence of black tourism in Rajasthan is seldom acknowledged, there are several places in Rajasthan that fall under this category. Because dark tourism impacts on a number of scientific areas and their consolidation creates a unique product market, the importance and role of dark tourism in current society is indeed a critical issue.

Dark Tourism,Morbid landmarks,Destination,Death and Tragedy,Narrativelegacies,Holocaust tourism.

DR.MOHAMMAD USMAN (2025); A Study of Dark Tourism Sites in Rajasthan, Shikshan Sanshodhan : Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences,      ISSN(o): 2581-6241,  Volume – 8,   Issue –  9.,  Pp.60-72        Available on –   https://shikshansanshodhan.researchculturesociety.org/

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