73 Copyright © 2023, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 5 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4817-5.ch005 ABSTRACT In the present book chapter, we have interrogated not only the nature of dark tourism but also the evolution of tourism since the former century to date. We have ofered a model based on three stages of tourism, each one conditioned by a turning point or founding event. Classic tourism was originated in the WWII end but fnalized as a result of Oil embargo in 1970. A new sustainable form of tourism supported by heritage fnally came to stay until the attacks to the US. The surfacing of new morbid form of tourism witnessed the exhaustion of an industry chiefy worried to face unnumberable global risks. INTRODUCTION It is not simplistic to say that dark tourism has exponentially grown in recent years consolidating as one of the trending topics and paradigms of the current tourism research (Hooper & Lennon 2016; Light 2017). Leading journals commonly publish one or two papers on dark tourism per issue. This happens simply because dark tourism has captivated not only the attention of journalists globally but also academicians -even some of them coming from social sciences (Shekhar & Valeri 2022; Tarifa-Fernandez, Carmona- Moreno & Sanchez-Fernandez 2022). At a closer look, the abundance of publications has accelerated a dispersion in the produced knowledge as well as the multiplications of definitions and application of the phenomenon (Hooper & Lennon 2016). Dark tourism is often associated with similar terms such as mourning tourism, black tourism, thana tourism or grief tourism -to name some of them-. The debate regarding the nature of dark tourism seems not to be easy to summarize. However, two main families Dark Pilgrimage and Implications in Dissonant Heritage Consumption: A Short Introduction Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5149-1669 University of Palermo, Argentina