Dark tourism has become increasingly popular reasearch topic in the tourist industry. It is a type of tourism that is associated with death, suffering and tragedy.The attention given to the events of death, suffering and crime and the subsequent development of dark tourist spots is attributed to the inherent human curiosity for mortality and the darker aspects of humanity. Tourists who travel to those destionations reconnect with the past and sympathize with people who suffered at certain points in our history. In that way those tourists satisfied their cultural needs. It is a special kind of tourism not liked by everybody, but which has important roles in not allowing the past to be forgotten and connecting it with our present. It provides us with information and stirs up not only personal emotions but also initiates wide-ranging discussions about the dark side of our history and the human kind in general. There are numerous reasons to visit those sites of the dark tourism. Dark tourists are often intentionally seeking for new experiences or new adventures to gain knowledge and understanding of what they do not know. In this case, interpretation plays a critical role in experiences. The dark tourism makes it possible for us to observe the issues connected with death and suffering from a distance. Emotional and educational motives are very powerful as are searching for our own heritage, satisfying our curiosity and indulging in nostalgia. The main goal of this thesis is to present the literature overview of the new touristic product whose main motivation is to search for some excitement, furthermore, to give its definitions and to intruduce the history and evolution of the dark tourism in the whole world. The thesis provides joined academic and practical insight into the aspect of tourism which is often misunderstood and misinterpreted.