What is Dark Tourism?
• Dark tourism is travel to sites of death, disaster, or the seemingly macabre•Many sites world-wide• Lists on the internet “Top 25
Dark Tourism Sites”
Dark tourism in Cambodia
• You Tube clip http://www.veoh.com/m/watch.php?v=v35350135AknbHAa6
Some Questions to make us think• Is there a legitimate place for “dark”
tourism in Cambodia? • Should there be a reminder about the
past? • Should younger generations learn about
their country’s past? • Is it ethical that money be made from the
sites where people were killed and tortured?
• Should there be memorials or museums?
Some interesting websites
• Dark Tourism: The Killing Fields of Cambodia
• http://www.natgeotraveller.in/magazine/month/december-2014/dark-tourism-the-killing-fields-of-cambodia/
• • Dark tourism in Phnom Penh: The Killing
Fields and the Genocide Museum• http://theatlasheart.com/2013/10/08/dar
k-tourism-in-phnom-penh-the-killing-fields-and-the-genocide-museum/
• • Cambodia Capitalizes on Boom in Dark
Tourism• http://www.utne.com/politics/cambodia-
khmer-rouge-thanatourism-theme-park.aspx