Globalization and better connection of different parts of the world together with destinations becoming more reachable resulted in tourism development. While explaining the term of tourism and its selective forms among which is also dark tourism, it is necessary to define tourism resources as tourism attractiveness base which will form the tourism destination with its selective tourism forms which destination will offer on tourism market. Together with those terms stated, it is important to define the term tourist as user of tourism services and products which are formed according to their motivation. The main purpose of this paper is to investigate and define selective tourism forms in opposition to mass tourism, specifically paying attention to dark tourism as a niche market while creating the tourist offer of different tourism destinations, furthermore, to explain different approaches in its conceptualization, different motives which motivate visitors and tourists to visit attractions and locations of dark tourism, typology of those attractions and already known locations of this selective tourism form.