Dark tourism

Lennon and Foley expanded their original idea [1] in their first book, deploring that "tact and taste do not prevail over economic considerations" and that the "blame for transgressions cannot lie solely on the shoulders of the proprietors, but also upon those of the tourists, for without their demand there would be no need to supply.

[13] Chris Hedges criticized the "Alcatraz narrative as presented by the National Park Service" as "whitewashing", because it "ignores the savagery and injustice of America's system of mass incarceration".

[19] It also includes sites of human atrocities, murders, and genocide, such as the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland,[20] the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall in China, the Columbine High School massacre in the United States, the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia; the sites of the Jeju Uprising in South Korea[12] and the Spirit Lake Internment Camp Centre near La Ferme, Quebec as an example of Canada's internment operations of 1914–1920.

[21] After the Broken Arrow killings, the home of the Bever family became a center for dark tourism by ghost hunters, urban legend seekers, teenagers, trespassers and vandals.

Against a backdrop of video interpretation portraying killing squads in action, the pseudo-Holocaust victim enters a personal ID into monitors as they wander around the attraction to discover how their real-life counterpart is faring.