There are also proposals for "thematic excursions" and " joint tourist, cultural, educational and educational events - conferences, festivals, excursions, study tours for students, thematic events ...

Chernobyl, one of the world's most hazardous places, is seeing a spike in tour popularity -- and becoming a grim hotspot for Instagrammers -- after HBO's hit miniseries on the 1986 nuclear disaster.

The Ukrainian government opened Chernobyl for tourism in 2011, but it won’t be safe for humans to live in the Exclusion Zone for 24,000 years. The 1986 explosion emitted 400 times the ...

Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 exploded on April 26, 1986, spewing radiation over a large swath of northern Europe. Hundreds of thousands of people were resettled from areas contaminated with radiation ...

In Pripyat, the ghost town once home to 50,000 people who mainly worked at the plant, an amusement park houses a rusting hulk of a merry-go-round and dodgem-car track, and a giant Ferris wheel ...

The former Chernobyl nuclear power plant is surrounded by an exclusion zone (Image: CHNPP) According to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) state enterprise, "this will contribute to the ...

One Chernobyl tour agency reported a 40% rise in trip bookings since the series, made by HBO, began in May and which has attracted outstanding reviews. English-language tours usually ...