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I'm Rory Claydon, and today on Business Daily, I'll be exploring what attracts travelers to so-called dark tourist spots, places that Alcatraz, Chernobyl, and Hiroshima

in Japan all have a well-developed tourism industry.

Tourists from Japan and abroad constantly visit

Hiroshima to learn about what happened here and to consider what we can do to realize a peaceful world.

We'll look at how businesses are cashing in on those who want to explore the darker periods

of human history, learn more about what happened,

and why and how they set foot in those places where others have had to flee from tragedy.

Let's start with someone who does just that.

I mean, we are always shocked, like, how much there is to learn, to see, to discover,

and to take for yourself, even though you are not, you were not living

at that time. So this is some kind of the mission, why we are taking people to the noble places,

or the dark places for some people. But again, I'm like being at these places, I don't really

consider them dark. That's Dominic Orfanus. He's a Slovakian business owner who is a founder

and CEO of Chernobyl-X. They're a

tour company that specializes in what they call adventure tourism. They take people to places such as North

Korea, as well as the Bikina or Cosmodron in Kazakhstan, which launches all of Russia's manned space flights.

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