China’s tourists flock to experience a pretend typhoon as ‘dark tourism’ flourishes
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In China, "smart tourism" and "pay for suffering" recreation are gaining popularity, in which tourists are invited to visit typhoon, flood, or earthquake sites. In China, tourists have begun to be invited to visit sites where typhoon, flood or earthquake simulations can survive, as well as real sites of tragedies, written The Guardian. A weather hazard simulation project, which opened in 2024, was developed by Lvxing Base, which produces documen…
Visitors visit sites where typhoon, flood, or earthquake simulations can be experienced.
A new popular tourism in China, probably unexpected: the tourism of catastrophe. Or so the black tourism. The search for experiences that recreate natural disasters and visits to places marked by historical tragedies is growing in China, in a trend known as "black tourism". In the background, tourists pay to escape from simulated typhoons and from simulated floods. It is a tourism of catastrophe. Leon Lv, a 28-year-old girl from Chongqing, trave…
China’s tourists flock to experience a pretend typhoon as ‘dark tourism’ flourishes
The concept of ‘paying to suffer’ soars in popularity, with simulated disasters proving a modern twist on visiting sites of historic tragedies When Leon Lv was looking for somewhere to travel last year, she turned to the Chinese social media app RedNote for ideas. The algorithm took her to videos…
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