Talk:Dark tourism

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Interesting article - it's not an expression I've heard of before, but there must be a lot more that can be said on the subject. Places that I would suggest could be dark tourism are Robben Island in South Africa, StalinWorld in Lithuania, many cold war era sites in Berlin, so-called terror tourism of the Peace lines of Belfast.

I would suggest that recent history, holds a greater 'dark' thrall than older history. Madame Tussauds, for example, was displaying death masks of guillotined victims of the French Revolution at the beginning of the 19th century when I would imagine that they were more shocking to Londoners than they are now becuase of the it-could-happen-here fear. --JBellis 17:08, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Snuff Tourism? Morbid Tourism?

I don't see why this expression merits an entry. People visit historical - and the mentioned - sites for many reaons, often outside the notion of 'dark'. It's an entirely POV statement. --TresRoque 01:15, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia reports on POV statements. -- Stbalbach 15:23, 16 January 2007 (UTC)