From Costa Concordia to the Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight, Tragedy Tourism is on the Rise

[KamaAina]

https://www.yahoo.com/travel/from-costa-concordia-to-the-missing-malaysia-airlines-91647801567.html

It’s a new, ghoulish trend — the ultimate rubbernecking — bad news is now establishing unlikely tourist destinations.

The Costa Concordia cruise ship, which ran aground off Italy’s Giglio Island on January 13, 2012, killing 32 people, is such a place.

The stranded vessel became a morbid tourist attraction, and led to an influx of day-trippers who wanted a closer view....

"We had Katrina tours pop up," Jennifer Day-Sully of the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau told ABC News.” It’s a double-edged sword. You have to be sensitive to the communities that these buses and tours are coming through because it can be perceived as being very insensitive. But on the other hand, you can educate people from out of town and encourage them to make donations and participate in volunteer work.”

Katrina, of course, started it all.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Just aside from the ghoulish nature of all such tours,

why would anyone do a "tragedy tour" of the Malaysia flight? What would you look at, vast expanses of the Indian Ocean?

[KamaAina]

2. Maybe they could pipe in a bing every few hours

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. CNN could provide the tour guides.

[KamaAina]

4. DUzy!

[dembotoz]

5. ghost towns have been popular for years

tours of famous battlefields

this sort of stuff has been popular for a really long time.

decrepit old stuff in interesting to look at

if that makes me morbid i am ok with that

[JI7]

6. that seems more to do with history , i wouldn't have any interest in this ship

but i would be interested in much more older stuff, even maybe titanic related things.