New Horizons in Tourism: Strange Experiences and Stranger Practices

Abstract

This chapter examines the borders that continue to divide hostilely partitioned nations and which, as a consequence of this division, themselves become objects of the tourist gaze, creating their own tourism subsystems, heritage, and management issues. The de facto border dividing the island of Cyprus and its repercussions are examined briefly, followed by a more detailed account of the armistice frontier that divides the two Koreas. The form of tourism described in this chapter is closely connected to atrocity tourism and war tourism.