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This dissertation aims to better understand how dark tourism can be exploited in Portugal and if the country has heritage that can induce to a larger interest on this intercultural phenomenon. Furthermore, the focus is established on serial killers and the excitement around them that has been continuously growing, demonstrating how they are present in Portugal and, as in other cultures, can also define our identity and be present in our culture.
Thanatourism, can be described as visitation to places such as battlefields, cemeteries, and other sites related to murder or death. These events congregate natural disasters, accidental disasters, wars, broad group atrocities, massacres, genocide, and large-scale killing. Inside this genre of tourism, there is the visitation to places connected to death, to the story of the murders and the killers that performed them. By studying it, it is possible to understand more about the dark side of the history of a country and its its impact on culture.
Regarding the intercultural point of view, it is possible to establish a connection between various countries through the existence of serial killers in them and the excitement that they cause on the population as there is a macabre curiosity towards death in everyone, allowing the features needed to explore the dark heritage and touristic sites that they provide.
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Dark tourism True crime Serial killer Murder Thanatourism