50 Dark Destinations: Crime and Contemporary Tourism

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50 Dark Destinations

Crime and Contemporary Tourism

Edited by: Adam Lynes , Craig Kelly and James Treadwell

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2023

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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.

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of figures Publicly Available Download PDF	x
About the editors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Adam Lynes, Craig Kelly and James Treadwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Cocaine Bear: Fun Mall, Lexington, Kentucky, USA Travis Linnemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
Whitney Plantation: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Thomas Raymen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	14
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: Washington, DC, USA Alice Storey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	24
From Newgate Prison to Tyburn Tree: the Old Bailey, London, UK Peter Joyce and Wendy Laverick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
Jack the Ripper tour: Whitechapel, London, UK Kevin Hoffin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	35
The Alcatraz East Crime Museum: Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, USA Laura Hammond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
The Museum of Death: Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA Loukas Ntanos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	50
The Royal Armouries Museum: Leeds, UK Sarah Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
The Black Dahlia tour: Los Angeles, California, USA David Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	59
The ‘Execution Dock’: Wapping, East London, UK Wendy Laverick and Peter Joyce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
Auschwitz: Oświęcim, Poland Tammy Ayres and Sarah Hodgkinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
Jeju 4:3 memorial: Jeju Island, South Korea Robin West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	80
Museum Dr. Guislain: Ghent, Belgium Sophie Gregory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	88
Karosta Prison Hotel: Liepāja, Latvia Melindy Duffus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	92
The Clink prison-based restaurant: Brixton, London, UK Dan Rusu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	98
The 9/11 memorial and museum: New York, New York, USA John Bahadur Lamb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	104
The Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes: Phnom Penh, Cambodia Eamonn Carrabine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
Choeung Ek killing field: Phnom Penh, Cambodia Luke Telford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	116
Blue lights in the Red Light District: Amsterdam, the Netherlands Ben Colliver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	122
Trophy hunting: sub-Saharan Africa Patrick Berry and Gary R. Potter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	128
‘The ugly side to the beautiful game’: Qatar Grace Gallacher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
Burning Man festival: Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA Keith Hayward Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	140
Magaluf: Majorca Simon Winlow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	147
‘Holiday Hooters’: Hong Kong Katie Lowe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
Scilla: Calabria, Italy Anna Sergi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	159
The Kray twins tours: London, UK Craig Ancrum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	165
Backpacking in the outback: Uluru, Northern Territory, Australia Eveleigh Buck-Matthews and Craig Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
The hippie trail: Nepal, South Asia Emiline Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
The Museum of Confiscated Art: Brest, Belarus Donna Yates and Hannah London Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	182
Steroid holidays: Sharm El Sheikh, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt Nick Gibbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	187
The souks: Tunis, Tunisia Kyla Bavin and James Treadwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	194
Mezhyhirya Residence Museum: Novi Petrivtsi, Ukraine Tereza Østbø Kuldova and Jardar Østbø Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	200
The great British seaside: various locations, UK Neil Chakraborti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
The Biggie mural: Brooklyn, New York, USA Natasha Pope Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
The Rebus guided tour: Edinburgh, UK Ian R. Cook and Michael Rowe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	217
Volunteer tourism – ‘doing it for the ’gram’: Cambodia, Southeast Asia Orlando Woods Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	223
The staycation: home Jack Denham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	230
The ‘suicide forest’: Aokigahara, Japan Max Hart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
Pitcairn Island: Pitcairn Islands, Pacific Ocean Steve Wadley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
Favela tours: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Duncan Frankis and Selina Patel Nascimento Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
Skid Row walking tours: Los Angeles, California, USA Craig Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	258
The 2019–20 anti-extradition protests: Hong Kong Jane Richards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	264
The Maldives: Republic of Maldives, Indian Ocean Emiline Smith and Oliver Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	271
Death Road: La Paz to Coroico, Bolivia Joe Garrihy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	276
Vulture brains and muthi markets: Johannesburg, South Africa Angus Nurse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	282
Dark tourism, ecocide and Alpine ski resorts: the Alps, Europe Oliver Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	288
Boho Zone: Middlesbrough, UK Emma Winlow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
One Hyde Park: London, UK Rowland Atkinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	299
Amazon warehouse tours: Rugeley, UK or virtual tour Adam Lynes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
Disney World: Orlando, Florida, USA Anthony Lloyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	315
Conclusion Adam Lynes, Craig Kelly and James Treadwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	322
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	325
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	394

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9781447362210

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424

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https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447362210

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