Тези ” Dark Tourism: Chernobyl zone “

DARK TOURISM: CHERNOBYL ZONE

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Research supervisor: ____

Candidate of Physics and Mathematics, Associate Professor

Language tutor: ____

Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor

Faculty of Computer and Information Technologies

Western Ukrainian National University

 

Introduction. Dark tourism plays an important role in development of the economy and tourism industry of Ukraine. This type of tourism has everything prospects for existence and further deep development and scientific study. Dark tourism helps humanity to realize the scale of disasters through fate thousands of people – its participants, witnesses and victims, makes people recognize the need reconciliation between man, science and technology. Despite consequences of the terrible catastrophe, Chernobyl is a tourist card, radioactive pearl of Ukraine. This paper examines the history of Chernobyl tourism as an innovative tourist service.

Objectives. The main task is to to study the prospects for development Chernobyl exclusion zone as a center of man-made disaster tourism in Ukraine.

Methods. Dark tourism is a combination of cognitive and extreme types of tourism, involves visiting places and attractions, historically associated with death and tragedy, destruction, natural disasters, and as well as places associated with mysticism [1, p.198].

The motivation of consumers of dark tourism is due to the following reasons: getting new impressions and emotions; the desire to glorify the memory of the dead; research of new tourist destinations; interest in new objects; morbid tourism; sense of patriotism; overcoming childhood fears; mysticism; search for thrills.

The main specific characteristics of dark tourism are [1, р. 199]:

• limited popularity (dark tours are in demand only in a limited number of people who have specific interests, related whith death or tragedy);
• restrictions on laws, traditions, norms of morality and mentality (tourists have to visit other countries since certain actions that fill the essence of dark tourism are prohibited in their countries);
• limited geographical nature (certain objects of dark tourism are only in one or more places on the planet).

Disaster tourism focuses on people who enjoy traveling on places of natural disasters and places brought by mankind to emergencies. In tourism disasters are: natural disasters; man-made disasters; disaster due to human negligence. Disaster tours are called «disater tour».

Today Ukraine occupies a special place in the ranking among other countries of dark tourism, because it has gone through catastrophic moments and has that to present to the world. Ukraine is developing varieties of dark tourism.

In April 1986 at the Chernobyl was the largest in history nuclear power accident. The reactor of the fourth power unit exploded, radioactive particles of iodine, strontium and cesium spread to the northern part of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, the Baltics, Poland, Sweden, Finland and other countries. The Chernobyl disaster caused great human casualties, Chernobyl became a symbol of nuclear danger on a global scale [2, p. 561].

 

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