“Good Tourism” in Solomon Islands

“Good Tour­ism” des­tin­a­tions and places in the Solomon Islands, and the travel & tour­ism stake­hold­ers in the trop­ic­al archipelago who are keen to show­case their good, their bet­ter, and their best.

Atrocity, curiosity, tragedy, travel: Battlefield tourism in the Solomon Islands

September 28, 2021

Kinugawa Maru, Japanese supply vessel wrecked at Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Top image by Gilly Tanbose (CC0) via Unsplash. Bottom image by author.

Dark peri­ods of his­tory evoke strong emo­tions, par­tic­u­larly among those with close con­nec­tions to par­ti­cipants. As doc­u­mented by Steph­en Pratt and his col­leagues, cruise tour­ists who chose to join a shore tour of World War II bat­tle­field sites, museums, and memori­als on Guadal­canal did so for a vari­ety of reas­ons and felt a range of […]

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