Dark Tourism with Professor John Lennon

09/08/2019 36 min
Dark Tourism with Professor John Lennon

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Professor John Lennon, Dean of the Glasgow School for Business and Society at GCU, joins the Common Good Podcast to discuss his research into the dark tourism - the phenomenon of travelling to locations around the world associated with death and disaster. Professor Lennon talks about what makes a dark tourism site, touching on places like Auschwitz and Pripyat, the abandoned city near the Chernobyl disaster, how governments protect areas of dark tourism and his recent work examining the gulags of Kazakhstan.

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