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Skinner’s Writing the Dark Side of Travel (2012) and White and Frew’s Dark Tourism and Place Identity (2013). 2 Not confined to dry and academic discussion only, the tourism industry, where interpretation and theory is tested and, if thought viable, absorbed and developed further, is no slouch when it comes to new ideas and opportunities. But an alliance between terms such as ‘tourism’and ‘dark’? What sort of recalibration was required to pull those two, seemingly incongruent, terms together? What did they mean; was it realistically possible to combine leisure with commemoration; and, in any case, what sorts of dangers might arise from a union of terms that ran so dangerously close to cancelling one another out? Since many consider tourism itself to be a discipline of slippery and evasive classifications, responsive to the whims of international markets and consumers, it might be argued that the prefix ‘dark’could …