'Dark tourism' can bring light to realities

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Note concept of 'dark tourism':
"dark tourism": tourism involving travel to places historically associated with death and tragedy.
Some examples include visitng slums in India, concentration camps in Europe, the killing fields in Cambodia, Fukushima in Japan.....

As the website www.dark-tourism.com makes clear, dark tourism does not include anything voyeuristic, nor does it involve "war tourism" (travel to current war zones) or disrespectful tourist behaviour, such as taking selfies at sites of tragedy.

The killing caves had invited tourists to gawk at a morbid slice of history, and whoever was in charge of curating the site had made little effort to educate the visitors, or to respect the victims.

If a tour, museum or a memorial site is curated carefully and with the right intentions - to educate and inform, rather than to shock and entertain - there can still be value in "dark tourism".


For qns on the educational values of tourism, and whether we can learn from the past...

Qn: ‘We travel a lot but learn very little.’ Is this true of tourism today? (RI Prelim 2018)