Black tourism. 13 most popular places in the world where people died

The author of the term "black tourism" is Professor John Lennon of the University of Glasgow, which explains the desire of people to visit places where bloody battles once fought, people died, natural disasters and catastrophes occurred, because a person’s ability to do evil and the very concept of death always admired. It was this feeling that made people watch the death penalty and fierce battles. And that is why when doctors, soldiers and rescuers leave the destroyed places, tourists come there - blood-spattered and disfigured territory becomes a popular tourist destination.

The theory of Professor Lennon and his work inspired photo correspondent Ambroise Thezenas to create a project that the author called “Black Tourism”. According to the photographer, tourists really like to take pictures against the background of those places where hundreds of people died. The goal of his project is not just visiting such places and photographing people who come there. Tesenas tried in the most graphic way to reveal the true meaning of this type of tourism, which has recently gained increasing popularity.

Destroyed in 2009 by an earthquake school in Xuankou (China). Tourists take pictures at the place of death of 300 people.

Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, former Nazi concentration camp (Poland). In 2011, almost 1.5 million people visited this place.

Cyclone B. cylinders with hydrogen cyanide gas were demonstrated at the same museum. It was used for mass poisoning of people in gas chambers.

This is how the place where President Kennedy was killed now looks like. Tours here last for half a day, or even all day.

Rides of Pripyat (Ukraine). A tour organized in this place provides everyone with the opportunity to take a photo against the backdrop of the fourth Chernobyl reactor.

Breakfast in the exclusion zone (Ukraine). To draw up documents giving permission to visit this zone, the tourist company helps tourists.

"City of Martyrs" Oradour-sur-Glan (France). In 1944, SS men shot the inhabitants of this village, sparing neither children nor women. The total number of victims was 642 people.

Choeng Ek (Cambodia) - the place of execution of 17 thousand people. Many of the victims were previously tortured and interrogated in the walls of Phnom Penh Prison.

The school building, which was used by the Khmer Rouge regime that came to power as a S-21 prison. Now the Tuol Sleng Museum is organized here, which is translated from Khmer as "a hill of poisonous trees." This place used to contain people accused of resisting the regime. And on January 7, 1979, evidence was displayed here for evidence of crimes committed in prison.

Travel agencies also organized a special tour of the places where the famous Katrina hurricane took place.

Karosta Prison (Latvia). This military prison is the only one in Europe where tours are organized. During the tour, you can even stay in the role of a prisoner.

Museum of the Lebanese Resistance (Mlita city, Lebanon). In 1982, during the occupation of Beirut by the Israeli army, the positions of thousands of Mujahideen were located around this trail.

Village of Marun al-Ras (Lebanon). In 2006, heavy battles of Israeli troops and Hezbollah terrorists took place at this place, and now Lebanese authorities have decided to arrange a free amusement park here.

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