Comments on: Tsunami disaster tourism: Phuket, Thailand http://www.grief-tourism.com/tsunami-disaster-tourism-phuket-thailand/ Travel to areas affected by natural disasters, places where people were murdered, etc. Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:06:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: writerkaren http://www.grief-tourism.com/tsunami-disaster-tourism-phuket-thailand/comment-page-1/#comment-6700 writerkaren Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:27:45 +0000 http://grief-tourism.com/?p=9#comment-6700 Hi there. I am a Canadian journalist working on a story about Disaster Tourism (exploring the pros and cons, to put it simply) and I'd love to find a Canadian to interview for the story, someone who has taken a trip that deliberately took them into an area that could fall within the parameters of "diaster" or grief tourism. I found the definitions on this site very helpful to further my understanding of those terms in this beginning stage of my research. Any takers out there? Hi there. I am a Canadian journalist working on a story about Disaster Tourism (exploring the pros and cons, to put it simply) and I’d love to find a Canadian to interview for the story, someone who has taken a trip that deliberately took them into an area that could fall within the parameters of “diaster” or grief tourism. I found the definitions on this site very helpful to further my understanding of those terms in this beginning stage of my research. Any takers out there?

]]> By: James Trotta http://www.grief-tourism.com/tsunami-disaster-tourism-phuket-thailand/comment-page-1/#comment-58 James Trotta Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:13:41 +0000 http://grief-tourism.com/?p=9#comment-58 <blockquote cite="Tina Isaac">Arriving here a week after the disaster was surreal: Aside from missing persons advisories at customs and posters to recruit blood donors, little seemed different. And yet, of course, everything was different. What doesn't change is the culture: The Thai people move forward with minimal fuss, they are always happy to see you, and the warmth is always genuine. You can feel the spirituality put into practice.</blockquote>A brief excerpt from http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14818689/ - the author was actually in an undamaged spa on Koh Samui so I'm not sure what was so surreal but it's still interesting that she went to Thailand a week after the tsunami.

Arriving here a week after the disaster was surreal: Aside from missing persons advisories at customs and posters to recruit blood donors, little seemed different. And yet, of course, everything was different. What doesn’t change is the culture: The Thai people move forward with minimal fuss, they are always happy to see you, and the warmth is always genuine. You can feel the spirituality put into practice.

A brief excerpt from http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14818689/ – the author was actually in an undamaged spa on Koh Samui so I’m not sure what was so surreal but it’s still interesting that she went to Thailand a week after the tsunami.

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