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Recently, the most individuals are being exposed by advertising and promotions through movies . Destination marketers are more using moviemakers and to attract tourists into their destinations without much advertising effort Traders now a days are using all their tools to attracts consumers minds then shape them as they like their consumers to be or ship them to a destination they want them to be at in a certain time, in short is described as controlling the humanity. Bojanic (1991) discovered a positive relationship between exposure to movies and visiting destination, cited by Tasci, (2009)..
Being exposed via media (movies, radio, news) when one of these media show a dark site or a death moment and show it in developed picture as “Titanic” or maybe just a new about a disaster happening somewhere in the world this is will increase human curiosity to go and see what is behind the scenes. Most of the people are exposed to visual attraction which stays in there mind longer than receiving information through either hearing or reading. There has been a reseach done by Riley, Baker, and Doren (1998) that found about 12 cities in the U.S. are visited due to have been seen in a movie also their reseach showed that movies increased number of visitation of a locations for at least 4 years after the release of the movie, cited by cited by Tasci, (2009).
When individuals receive information via media they either interact immediate or take about five years to decide to go to a certain destination. Agreeing with Lennon and Foley they cited that “...global communication technologies are inherent in both the events which are associated with a dark tourism product and are present in the representation of the events for visitors at the site itsel...

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...onstructed attractions or experiences that interpret or recreate events or acts associated with death, and ‘accidental’ sites (sites, such as grave- yards or memorials, that have become attractions ‘by accident’). An example of a death location becoming an attraction is 911 attacks. There is a 9/11 Memorial Museum have been build near the trade center and many people go to this memorial. According, to Poria et al (2006) considered dark tourism as pilgrimage activity as it been studied the visitors of Anne Frank’s House. They identified that some visitors considered it as ‘social obligation that they believe that they should visit this place cited by Selmi, & Tur, (2012). Moreover, MacCannell’s has a theory, which stated that dark tourism is ‘sight sacralisation’ arguing that the dark site for a tourist occurs from a process of sacralisation, which leads pilgrimage.

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