The Disneyfication of war tourism in Sri Lanka wrongly represents one region’s unpleasant reality


Skift Take

Too often war tourism mitigates the horrors of conflict rather than educate travelers on the reality of a location and its people’s history.
The tourists have travelled hundreds of kilometers to see this underground bunker, once home to the most feared man in Sri Lanka: the leader of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),