Central Macedonia Stakeholders Agenda is on Dark Tourism

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

The stakeholders of Central Macedonia and Thessaloniki tourism will be exploring ways to tap into ‘dark tourism’ . They will be opening sites that were marked by death and tragedy.

According to Tasos Tzikas, TIF-HEKEXPO, dark tourism is an important  form of special-interest tourism that will be creating narratives and make the cities and countries all the more attractive.

The evolving form creates travel products out of the sites historically associated with death and tragedy.

The mayor of Thessaloniki mentioned that the northern port city has throughout history has been a location of agony and has turned out to be an international symbol.

Through dark tourism one can get deeper knowledge of the human geography of a location with errors, failures and even atrocities committed along with revealing all the negative factors that marked the lives of the city’s inhabitants so that they do not get repeated.

Major historic events took place in the Central Macedonian region that marked the life of its residents and impacted local culture like the Balkan Wars, Macaedonian Front in World  War I and II.

The trails of the Thsessalonki’s Jewish community, settlement of refugees, the city’s great fire, the civil war, the Polk Affair can be transformed to provide dark tourism experiences.

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