Tourism and ethics in sites of dissonant heritage, Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) and Killing Fields (Cambodia)
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turismo oscuro. patrimonio difícil. turismo de genocidio. mercantilización de la muerte.Abstract
Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) and the Killing Fields (Cambodia) were extermination camps that emerged as a result of two authoritarian regimes: the Nazis, in the first, and the Khmer Rouge, in the second; in them, about 2.5 million people were killed. In both cases, the sites are seen as scenes of genocide perpetrated by a particular regime. However, at present these are very important tourist centers, which attract a large number of visitors who consume the spaces of death, tragedy and solemnity. The purpose of this article is to value the ethical pertinence of commercializing tourism and patrimonializing the spaces associated with the genocides of the XX century. For this, qualitative and quantitative data were collected in situ from the execution of participant observation and surveys, techniques that were complemented with the coding of ethical information obtained from netnographies and the analysis of virtual discourse on social networks.
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