Disaster tourism is the name for the kind of the travel, which has a looking at of a disaster without an active participation in the assistance as a goal. Even if the disaster tourism is regarded critically by the large majority of the society, there were tour operators and/or travel agencies, which offered purposefully and with "„success "“pure "„looking journeys "“into disaster areas in individual cases. However the disaster tourism in most forms a form of the individual tourism is to be distinguished and not always clearly from the normal tourism.

Disaster tourism emerges often in connection with inundations and notices, for example:

• Ground after Zero [[terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the from 11-September 2001

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• Elbe flood in the year 2002.
• Tsunami in the Indian ocean in the year 2004.
• Inundations in Switzerland in the summer 2005

Also the journeys to the area of the disaster of Tschernobyl and into the spirit city Tschernobyl belong to a kind of the disaster tourism.

The phenomenon is not in all other respects by any means new: Already 1921 discovered Karl Kraus in the Basler message an announcement, with for "“battleground round travels in the car!"” in Verdun one recruited (see advertisement travels to hell, in: Karl Kraus reader, Frankfurt 1987, S. 287f.).

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• Tsunami spawns disaster tourism- The Times of India
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