Lethal Visits: Volcano Tourism and the White Island Eruption
Dr. Binoy Kampmark
It might have come across as written by a killjoy, but geographer Amy Donovan’s observations on “volcano tourism” in Geo, published by the Royal Geographical Society in 2018, remain timely. Be wary, her study suggests, of this particular brand of commodified, risky behaviour. Those with volcanophilic tendencies, she warns, were putting themselves at unnecessary risk. In July, such daring tourism claimed a life in Stromboli in Italy, while 40 hikers were killed by an explosion from Mount Ontake in Japan in 2014.
As with other elements of extreme tourism, marketed as borderline, mad and tinglingly existential, the theme is.......
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