Dark tourism + selfie sticks = moral outrage
All In The Mind
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4.4 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Since the days of gladiator battles and public hangings, dark tourism — our attraction to places linked to death and despair — has been a part of human behaviour.
But there's something in the 21st century that's causing debate… Selfies.
Digital media isn't all bad though. It's also creating opportunities for authentic storytelling.
Today, we examine what dark tourism is, if it's ethical, and when it is (and isn't) appropriate to snap a selfie.
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| 0:00.0 | ABC Listen, Podcasts, Radio, News, Music and more. |
| 0:07.4 | Just tell me what you had for breakfast while I fix these levels again. |
| 0:11.1 | I haven't had very much. I've had a slice of toast so far. |
| 0:14.0 | About a year ago, Craig White, who researches tourism management, stumbled upon a travel company that was organizing the most unexpected, |
| 0:23.4 | probably unethical, definitely unsafe kind of tour. |
| 0:27.5 | I came across a company online called Visit Ukraine who were organizing battlefield tours of the country for kind of thrill seekers. |
| 0:38.9 | So they were literally offering tours of Ukraine to go to sites where you could witness warfare. |
| 0:46.2 | What? |
| 0:46.9 | The aftermath of attacks, you know, kind of blown up tanks and so forth and vehicles and street. |
| 0:53.2 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:54.3 | Yeah. So there you have a kind of more... and street. Oh my God. Yeah. |
| 0:54.9 | So there you have a kind of... |
| 0:56.1 | Go to a live war zone. |
| 0:57.9 | Wow. |
| 0:58.4 | That's incredible. |
| 1:01.0 | Apparently this kind of thing isn't unheard of though. |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.4 | And that's something that again we've been doing for a long time. |
| 1:08.4 | So you had the Battle of Waterloo. There were tourists there in horse-drawn carriages |
| 1:14.2 | in 1815 watching the battle unfold. So it's a kind of ancient behavior that we're looking at |
| 1:20.9 | through the lens of the modern day. This is all in the mind. I'm Sana Khadar. |
| 1:30.8 | You might have heard of the term dark tourism or dark tourist. |
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