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While touring new places, tourists are exposed to new sites, new civilizations, as well as new cultures. For some people, having a week on a cruise ship or a vacation in a beach resort is a favorable choice, while for some others visiting places that represent suspense, excitement and horror is another choice. All these practices of visits have entered the field of tourism under the term of \"Dark Tourism\". In Egypt, there are many places that can be exploited for implementing dark tourism as a new trend in the Egyptian tourism industry. The research's core problem emerges from the fact that Egypt has many dark tourism sites of attraction, but they are not well exploited. This paper is built on one hypothesis which is promoting dark tourism in Egypt will result in creating a variety in the Egyptian tourism product and consequently increasing the number of dark tourists' to Egypt. Therefore, this paper examines the concept of dark tourism and its different categories, shed light on the Egyptian sites of attraction that can help in promoting dark tourism in Egypt and identify the focus areas of the proposed strategy for promoting dark tourism in Egypt The paper depended on some methods including review of literature and questionnaire forms distributed to a number of travel agencies and tourism experts in Egypt (October 2016: February 2017). The\" findings revealed that dark tourism can be promoted in Egypt throughout implementing a strategy depending on three basic factors, which are determining the target market of dark tourism, creating variation in the Egyptian dark tourism programs and finally increasing the advertising campaigns. Relevant recommendations are given.