50 Dark Destinations: Crime and Contemporary Tourism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781447362197)

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.

Author: Alice Storey
ISBN-10: 1447362195
ISBN-13: 9781447362197
Publisher: Policy Press
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2023
Pages: 424
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.30d