Vol. 7, Issue 7, Part E (2021)

Abstract
Dark tourism is a homogenous mixture of history, tradition, catastrophe all in the spectrum of tourism. Dark tourism has many names; among them are thanatourism, grief tourism and morbid tourism. Even though there was no official term for dark tourism till 1996 but dark tourism is not a new practice. The main attraction to dark locations is their historical value rather than their associations with death and suffering. Dark tourism destinations are the sites where some kind of catastrophe has happened so it requires keeping in mind the hard core values, ethics, sentiments and moral of the people. Even though there aren‘t much places in Uttarakhand labelled as dark tourism sites yet with immense history and unexplored places Uttarakhand has enough potential to boom as dark tourism destination. Already known and pretty famous site is Roop kund where human skeletons were found. Even Kedaranath has been declared as dark tourism site as the devastation there is witnessed by everyone. There are pros and cons to dark tourism and also not being very popular it has to face various challenges.