Tragedy becomes a destination
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American newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, published an article last week about a new world tourist hit – touring the areas where some of the greatest crimes in the history of mankind were committed.
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Rwanda, Cambodia, Poland, Armenia, Kurdistan and Bosnia and Herzegovina are the favourite places of the growing population of "genocide tourists" from all over the world.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially Srebrenica where the massacre of over 7,000 Muslims was committed in July 1995, is one of the "most attractive" destinations on the map of morbid tourist offer. |
| The number of visitors to Sarajevo has increased by 25 percent in comparison to 2005, while Srebrenica is in second place on the list of most attractive genocide sites after Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. |
| "We've come to terms that there are places in our country that attract tourists because of war history," Arna Ugljen, the tourism board's director of public relations, said. |
