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