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Dark tourism is a new coinage rooted in the perception of tourism activities at the sites or destinations connected to phenomena that bear varied, flexible, dynamic, diverse, and graded dark shades of life and civilization. It is now customary to subsume it within the sets of niche tourism. Some dark tourism sites attract visitors and generate sizable amounts of revenue, yet most of the world does not register much demand compared to other niches. Accordingly, promotion pursuit turned crucial to draw the market’s attention, creating its competitively distinct position.

Indeed, inherent issues, such as conceptual multiplicity within nature, aspect, attribute, and product paradigm, turn dark tourism into a complex phenomenon and put a challenge toward creating its distinct market position. Additionally, contradictions in semantic and functional significances, conflicts in framing morbid memory and authentic portrayal, variances in ethical, cultural and ideological interpretations, transition of liminal space identity, and diverse focuses in stakeholder engagement in imaging impede efforts to transform dark tourism attractions into a significant driver of tourism.

This chapter will locate and address the issues that challenge the marketability of dark attractions and dark tourism promotion more directly, with attention to the Indian context.

December 15 and 18, 1972 Farm — Contract of employment — Contract of service or contract for services — Relief worker sent by farm agency injured by negligence of farm manager — Whether relief worker a ‘worker’ — The Agriculture (Safety, Health and Welfare) Provisions Act, 1956 (c.49), ss.14 (1), (3), 24 (1) — Agriculture (Field Machinery) Regulations, 1962 [S.I. 1962 No. 1472], reg. 3 (1).

Over the past 50 years, dark tourism has seen exponential growth in terms of both physical and digital contexts. Dark tourism is primarily a concentration around documented accounts of physical violence, and theorizations centered on dark tourism studies have generally fallen within either behavioral or interpretivist perspectives. Such perspectives are indicative of the continually evolving nature of dark tourism and its receptiveness to new definitions, conceptual frameworks, and theorizations. Taking this into consideration, this chapter seeks to develop and broaden the notion of “dark tourism” within the era of late capitalism by presenting fresh theoretical perspectives stemming from critical criminological frameworks. Specifically, in drawing upon critical notions of violence and the emerging deviant leisure framework, this chapter will aim to instigate fresh academic enquiry into the nature of dark tourism, expand its theoretical underpinnings, and subsequently provide a means in which to examine how banal forms of tourism play an integral part in the proliferation of some of the most serious harms that populate the contemporary neoliberal landscape.

December 2, 1970 Redundancy — Calculation of payment — “Normal working hours” — Consensual variation of contract of employment — Implication by conduct — Workman employed under contract of employment subject to national agreement — 40 hour week in five eight‐hour shifts — Subsequently told to work five 12‐hour shifts — No express mutual variation of contract — Natural inference to be drawn from working 12‐hour shifts thereafter for six years — Whether normal working hours increased — Contracts of Employment Act, 1963 (11 & 12 Eliz. II, c. 49) Sch. 1, para. 1(1) (2).

February 28, 1968 Master and Servant — Redundancy — Dismissal — Termination of lease by tenant farmer — Employee served with notice — Offer of employment to employee by new tenant farmer — Refusal by employee — Whether “change … in the ownership of a business” — Whether dismissal because of redundancy — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c.62), ss.2(3), 13(1)(3).

October 26, 1970 Redundancy — “Place where…employed” — Steel erector — Contract of employment governed by terms of national agreement — No express term empowering employers to require employee to work at distant sites — Employers operating countrywide business — Work on site within daily travelling distance completed — Dismissal of employee for refusal to work at distant site — Whether employee entitled to redundancy payment — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c.62), s.1(2).

January 26, 1970 Building — Safety regulations — Crane — Limited mobility of — Workman injured while re‐painting — Whether “work of engineering construction” — Whether crane “any steel… structure other than a building” — Whether “of a similar nature” to a “structure” — Factories Act, 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz.II, c. 34), s. 176(1) — Engineering Construction (Extension of Definition) Regulations, 1960 (S.1. 1960,No. 421), reg. 3 and Sch. — Construction (Working Places) Regulations, 1966 (S.1. 1966, No. 94), reg. 2(1).

February 28, 1967 Master and servant — Dismissal Redundancy — “Place where the employee was so employed” — Employee living and working in Sussex — Termination of employers' work in Sussex — Notice offering alternative employment elsewhere — Transfer clause in Working Rides Agreement — Employee's refusal of alternative employment — Whether employee “dismissed” — Whether dismissal by reason of redundancy — Whether entitled to redundancy payment — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c. 62), ss. 1,3.