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Tourism is not always about celebrating mankind's greatest achievements or breathtaking vistas. Sometimes it is reflecting on human loss and depravity. And tha
by erichurkman 12y ago
Tourism is not always about celebrating mankind's greatest achievements or breathtaking vistas.
Sometimes it is reflecting on human loss and depravity. And that's OK.
- personlurking 12y agoCase(s) in point: Dark Tourism (visits to "dark" sites, such as battlegrounds, scenes of horrific crimes or acts of genocide), Disaster tourism (the act of traveling to a disaster area as a matter of curiosity) and, slightly related, Doom Tourism (emerging trend involving traveling to places that are environmentally or otherwise threatened). Also, Slum Tourism...