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From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, expert criminologists, psychologists and historians explore the past and contemporary issues which we often disregard during our everyday leisure.
This captivating book is the ‘go-to’ guide for anyone interested in crime and deviance-related tourism. Accessible and digestible, it exposes a worrying trend in contemporary consumer culture, in which many of us partake.
“Fun and scholarly, engaging and academic, interesting and intellectual, and should be widely read by anyone interested in violence, trauma, memory, memorialisation, war, museums and history. The subject matter is gruesome and chilling but at the same time accessible and illuminating.” Kevin Walby, University of Winnipeg
“Captures how all societies have fascinations with the macabre, but pushes this notion to ask how curiosity became tourism. ... Should leave us reflecting on our age where everything has a price but do we really understand the price that has been paid?" Lisa Mckenzie, University of Bedfordshire
Adam Lynes is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University.
Craig Kelly is Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University.
James Treadwell is Professor in Criminology at Staffordshire University.
Introduction - Adam Lynes, Craig Kelly and James Treadwell
1. Cocaine Bear: Lexington, Kentucky, USA - Travis Linnemann
2. Whitney Plantation: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Thomas Raymen
3. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: Washington DC, USA - Alice Storey
4. From Newgate Prison to Tyburn Tree: the Old Bailey, London, UK - Peter Joyce and Wendy Laverick
5. Jack the Ripper Tour: Whitechapel, London, UK - Kevin Hoffin
6. The Alcatraz East Crime Museum: Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, USA - Laura Hammond
7. The Museum of Death: Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA - Loukas Ntanos
8. The Royal Armouries Museum: Leeds, UK - Sarah Jones
9. The Black Dahlia tour: Los Angeles, California, USA - David Wilson
10. The Execution Dock: Wapping, East London, UK - Wendy Laverick and Peter Joyce
11. Auschwitz: Oświęcim, Poland - Tammy Ayres and Sarah Hodgkinson
12. Jeju 4:3 memorial: Jeju Island, South Korea - Robin West
13. Museum Dr. Guislain: Ghent, Belgium - Sophie Gregory
14. Karosta Prison Hotel: Liepāja, Latvia - Melindy Duffus
15. The Clink prison-based restaurant: Brixton, London, UK - Dan Rusu
16. The 9/11 memorial and museum: New York, New York, USA - John Bahadur Lamb
17. The Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes: Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Eamonn Carrabine
18. Choeung Ek killing field: Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Luke Telford
19. Blue lights in the Red Light District: Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Ben Colliver
20. Trophy hunting: sub-Saharan Africa - Patrick Berry and Gary R. Potter
21. 'The ugly side to the beautiful game': Qatar - Grace Gallacher
22. Burning Man festival: Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA - Keith Hayward
23. Magaluf: Majorca - Simon Winlow
24. 'Holiday Hooters': Hong Kong - Katie Lowe
25. Scilla: Calabria, Italy - Anna Sergi
26. The Kray twins tours: London, UK - Craig Ancrum
27. Backpacking in the outback: Uluru, Northern Territory, Australia - Eveleigh Buck-Matthews and Craig Kelly
28. The hippie trail: Nepal, South Asia - Emiline Smith
29. The Museum of Confiscated Art: Brest, Belarus - Donna Yates and Hannah London
30. Steroid holidays: Sharm El Sheikh, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt - Nick Gibbs
31. The Souks: Tunis, Tunisia - Kyla Bavin and James Treadwell
32. Mezhyhirya Residence Museum: Novi Petrivtsi, Ukraine - Tereza Østbø Kuldova and Jardar Østbø
33. The great British seaside: various locations, UK - Neil Chakraborti
34. The Biggie mural: Brooklyn, New York, USA - Natasha Pope
35. The Rebus guided tour: Edinburgh, UK - Ian R. Cook and Michael Rowe
36. Volunteer tourism - 'doing it for the 'gram': Cambodia, Southeast Asia - Orlando Woods
37. The Staycation: home - Jack Denham
38. The 'suicide forest': Aokigahara, Japan - Max Hart
39. Pitcairn Island: Pitcairn Islands, Pacific Ocean - Steve Wadley
40. Favela tours: Rio De Janerio, Brazil - Duncan Frankis and Selina Patel Nascimento
41. Skid Row walking tours: Los Angeles, California, USA - Craig Kelly
42. The 2019-2020 anti-extradition protests: Hong Kong - Jane Richards
43. The Maldives: Republic of Maldives, Indian Ocean - Emiline Smith and Oliver Smith
44. Death Road: La Paz to Coroico, Bolivia - Joe Garrihy
45. Vulture brains and muthi markets: Johannesburg, South Africa - Angus Nurse
46. Dark Tourism, ecocide and alpine ski resorts: the Alps, Europe - Oliver Smith
47. Boho Zone: Middlesbrough, UK - Emma Winlow
48. One Hyde Park: London, UK - Rowland Atkinson
49. Amazon warehouse tours: Rugeley, UK or virtual tour - Adam Lynes
50. Disney World: Orlando, Florida, USA - Anthony Lloyd
Conclusion - Adam Lynes, Craig Kelly and James Treadwell