Like Ground Zero and Auschwitz: Will the Gaza Envelope become an opal tourist site? - Walla! tourism. Millions of tourists from all over the globe travel every year to some of the most depressing places on earth: sites of horror, tragedies, disasters or monstrous death.
The term "Opal Tourism" was coined in 1996 by two academics from Scotland, J. John Lennon and Malcolm Foley, who published research under the name "Dark Tourism: The Attraction of Death and Disaster"