This essay will focus people's fascination with the "black spot" as a tourist attraction. Throughout time society as been engaging in tourist behavior but travel to the "black spot" is a relatively new phenomenon. This essay will outline specific factors which explain why people travel to "black spots" and other factors that arise when discussing tourism to "black spots" in general. These factors must be included as they facilitate the travel in the first place and make tourism physically possible. These factors include physical and cultural motivations as well as personal and prestige related motivations. Other factors that will be discussed are social dynamics and aspects concerning technology. Other ideas that will be discussed are the psychological benefits that tourists seek to attain when traveling. Furthermore, it will be noted the tourist traveling to the "black spot" is classified as an individual mass tourist or a recreational tourist.
             In the beginning a definition of the term "black spot" is needed. According to Wyllie (2000), the "black spot" is a place where a celebrity or large numbers of people are buried or have met with sudden or violent death. Some examples that Wyllie uses are the tours that recreate President Kennedy's assassination and the USS memorial at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
             As mentioned earlier there are psychological aspects that help explain tourist fascination with "black spots". According to Tribe (1997), tourism is defined as the ways in which people look for psychological benefits that arise when they experience new places, and new situations that are of temporary duration while they are free from daily constraints of work and family. This explains travel to "black spots" because people have a strong desire to visit a place where their favorite celebrity passed on. The visit has psychologic...