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The purpose of this thesis is the study of an alternative form of tourism called dark tourism, and the comprehension of tourist motivations who decide to visit dark tourism sites. Throughout the ages, people have shown great interest in macabre and death related events, and whenever the main purpose of a journey is to gaze upon real or recreated death that phenomenon can be called dark tourism. The nature of this particular thesis is explanatory, thus the methodology that is used is the literature review. The main sources this thesis relies on are books, scientific articles, and publications that are related with dark tourism, as well as on findings from two former primary researches. The thesis also presents some results and findings that arise from the literature of dark tourism. First of all, the study of dark tourism is evidently a function of the study of both demand and supply of the phenomenon. The former because there is a need to study the services that are provided by each and every dark tourism site, and also whether the dark tourism sites have the appropriate infrastructure in order to welcome tourists, and the latter because there is a need to study the reasons tourists choose to visit dark destinations and their motivations. Secondly, dark tourism is a temporal phenomenon, a fact that is established through examples of dark tourism since ancient times. The final result that is presented is the importance of the media in promoting dark tourism products, given that by using the right means it can provide the tourists with greater understanding of the dark tourism sites and encourage their interest toward them. The results and inferences of this particular thesis can be useful for future research concerning dark tourism, in its numerous forms, variations and guises, and will provide for a better and deeper understanding of the phenomenon.