war tourism

"Is there much to Vietnam beyond war tourism?"

HebeiRanzhuang tunnel is also a famous war tourism site in China.

Today it is one of the country's prime tourist attractions, part of a new industry of war tourism.

War tourism is recreational travel to war zones for purposes of sightseeing and superficial voyeurism.

It could be argued that continued tourism to these regions is war tourism, even though active combat is free from tourist access.

Civil War tourism sites:

"War tourism in Poland", Times Online, 2007-06-14.

The initial myth of modern war tourism was actually started by a collection of stories by P.J. O'Rourke.

So the question is: does the appearance of these books amount to an incitement to war tourism or an inducement to unwitting adventure tourists to expose themselves to real danger?

After the war tourism swiftly declined, and with the increase in automobile use the funicular railway fell into disuse, thus effectively removing one of the main reasons for visiting the town.

However, the Norwegian semi-autobigraphical novel Turisten (The Tourist) published in 2007 by the author Erik Bakken Olafsen treats the theme war tourism extensively.

D Map Specializing in 'war tourism,' with trips near and around Cerro Guazapa, a former FMLN stronghold and the scene of bitter fighting.

VIETNAM - War tourism was the big attraction for those who first visited Vietnam after 1994, when President Clinton lifted the American trade embargo.

Mr President, three days ago I was in Ramallah, and I am therefore one of those Members whom Mr Santini inappropriately accused of war tourism.

The PBS TV show Frontline used the phrase war tourism to describe a practice in Iraq of US troops going on daylight patrols and returning in the evening to heavily defended large bases.

With the end of the Angolan war tourism especially wilderness and fishing safaris may develop in Shangombo District, aided by proximity to the Trans-Caprivi Highway at Katima Mulilo just across the district's southern border.

There has been no proof of war tourism in modern warfare but the idea has gained currency in a number of media reports, none of which have actually interviewed or found a tourist who have visited active combat areas as a tourist.

War tourism is also confused with "Battlefield tourism": the visiting of sites which have a relevance to historic battles no longer active, such as the German WW2 fortification, the Atlantic Wall, the Western Front or the Maginot Line in France.