Grief Tourism

Travel to areas affected by natural disasters, places where people were murdered, etc.

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Tsunami disaster tourism: Phuket, Thailand

5th June 2006

On the morning of December 26, 2004, Phuket, the largest island of Thailand, felt the first shock of the 9.0 earthquake that brought the “Andaman Wave” to the shores of the Andaman Sea on the Indian Ocean coastline.  Hotels along the waterfront were filled with tourists on vacation for the Christmas holidays, unaware of what […]

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