http://www.grief-tourism.com/auschwitz-a-grim-reminder-of-the-holocaust/ Travel to areas affected by natural disasters, places where people were murdered, etc. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:22:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.grief-tourism.com/auschwitz-a-grim-reminder-of-the-holocaust/#comment-591 Trying to explain the rise of dark tourism - Grief Tourism Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:57:06 +0000 http://grief-tourism.com/?p=11#comment-591 [...] This article looks at dark tourism and explores (in a very shallow way) the popularity of dark tourism. Tourist sites mentioned include Ground Zero in New York (here there’s an interesting comment from a tourist who refused to leave the tour bus because he “felt it was a bit sick”), Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, the Necropolis in Glasgow, the graves of Soham murder victims Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, the killing fields of Choeung Ek and interrogation centre Tuol Sleng in Cambodia, plus Lockerbie and Dunblane in Scotland. [...] […] This article looks at dark tourism and explores (in a very shallow way) the popularity of dark tourism. Tourist sites mentioned include Ground Zero in New York (here there’s an interesting comment from a tourist who refused to leave the tour bus because he “felt it was a bit sick”), Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland, the Necropolis in Glasgow, the graves of Soham murder victims Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, the killing fields of Choeung Ek and interrogation centre Tuol Sleng in Cambodia, plus Lockerbie and Dunblane in Scotland. […]

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