Tourism is often associated with terms of emotions and motivation. Numerous authors have studied the various types of motivation present in users of tourism travels and services over the years, thus linking the terms of motivation with tourism. Emotions have some influence on motivation itself, which is how emotions and motivation are connected. There are numerous links between emotions and tourism. The purpose and the main goal of this paper is to investigate the exact role of motivation and emotions in tourism based on examples of religious and dark tourism. Based on the research conducted through interviews, results are related to different forms of present motivation for visiting religious and dark tourism destinations of the respondents, as well as results related to different types of emotions the respondents described during and after their journey. The research based on answers of ten respondents shows that more of them are more familiar with the term of religious tourism than with the dark tourism. After explaining and defining the term of dark tourism, the research shows that the same number of respondents participated in the tourist travel process of both types of tourism. Based on the research, it is concluded that religious tourism is mostly associated with pleasant emotions and dark tourism with unpleasant emotions, although that is largely dependent on many factors present during individual journeys.