50 Dark Destinations

Crime and Contemporary Tourism

Adam Lynes, Craig Kelly, James Treadwell

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781447362197
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781447362203
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halft-Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• About the editors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Cocaine Bear: Fun Mall, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
• 2 Whitney Plantation: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
• 3 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: Washington, DC, USA
• 4 From Newgate Prison to Tyburn Tree: the Old Bailey, London, UK
• 5 Jack the Ripper tour: Whitechapel, London, UK
• 6 The Alcatraz East Crime Museum: Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, USA
• 7 The Museum of Death: Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA
• 8 The Royal Armouries Museum: Leeds, UK
• 9 The Black Dahlia tour: Los Angeles, California, USA
• 10 The ‘Execution Dock’: Wapping, East London, UK
• 11 Auschwitz: Oświęcim, Poland
• 12 Jeju 4:3 memorial: Jeju Island, South Korea
• 13 Museum Dr. Guislain: Ghent, Belgium
• 14 Karosta Prison Hotel: Liepāja, Latvia
• 15 The Clink prison-based restaurant: Brixton, London, UK
• 16 The 9/11 memorial and museum: New York, New York, USA
• 17 The Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 18 Choeung Ek killing field: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 19 Blue lights in the Red Light District: Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• 20 Trophy hunting: sub-Saharan Africa
• 21 ‘The ugly side to the beautiful game’: Qatar
• 22 Burning Man festival: Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA
• 23 Magaluf: Majorca
• 24 ‘Holiday Hooters’: Hong Kong
• 25 Scilla: Calabria, Italy
• 26 The Kray twins tours: London, UK
• 27 Backpacking in the outback: Uluru, Northern Territory, Australia
• 28 The hippie trail: Nepal, South Asia
• 29 The Museum of Confiscated Art: Brest, Belarus
• 30 Steroid holidays: Sharm El Sheikh, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
• 31 The souks: Tunis, Tunisia
• 32 Mezhyhirya Residence Museum: Novi Petrivtsi, Ukraine
• 33 The great British seaside: various locations, UK
• 34 The Biggie mural: Brooklyn, New York, USA
• 35 The Rebus guided tour: Edinburgh, UK
• 36 Volunteer tourism – ‘doing it for the ’gram’: Cambodia, Southeast Asia
• 37 The staycation: home
• 38 The ‘suicide forest’: Aokigahara, Japan
• 39 Pitcairn Island: Pitcairn Islands, Pacific Ocean
• 40 Favela tours: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 41 Skid Row walking tours: Los Angeles, California, USA
• 42 The 2019–20 anti-extradition protests: Hong Kong
• 43 The Maldives: Republic of Maldives, Indian Ocean
• 44 Death Road: La Paz to Coroico, Bolivia
• 45 Vulture brains and muthi markets: Johannesburg, South Africa
• 46 Dark tourism, ecocide and Alpine ski resorts: the Alps, Europe
• 47 Boho Zone: Middlesbrough, UK
• 48 One Hyde Park: London, UK
• 49 Amazon warehouse tours: Rugeley, UK or virtual tour
• 50 Disney World: Orlando, Florida, USA
• Conclusion
• References
• Index