{"id":10715,"date":"2014-03-22T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10715"},"modified":"2014-03-22T04:12:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T08:12:53","slug":"disaster-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/disaster-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/032214_0809_DisasterTou1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"295\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Summer is coming up and there are reasonably priced packages for trips to the Ukraine, Syria, and Sudan you should consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Companies that set up tours to countries with political problems have been thriving.<\/li>\n<li>One company offers a $5,775 trip to the Ukraine (excluding airfare) where travelers can meet with politicians and have journalists serve as guides.<\/li>\n<li>Another company offers trips to Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo advertizing the chance to see &#8220;wildlife, oil and AK-47s&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Those who want something less exciting can opt for tours to the recently-opened exclusion zone surrounding Chernobyl, and visit the abandoned ghost city where people fled the nuclear accident.<\/li>\n<li>And it&#8217;s not all about the third world. Tours of areas dealing with gang violence in South Los Angeles are also available for the brave hearted.<\/li>\n<li>Critics say that human suffering is being used for entertainment. One company offering tours to South Los Angeles considered selling tshirts that said &#8220;I Got Shot in South Central&#8221; \u2013 with a free squirt from a water gun to accompany it.<\/li>\n<li>Supporters point out that it&#8217;s a good way for people to see on the ground realities, independent of any distortions by the media.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about more of the exciting places you can go, the places that even these tour operators won&#8217;t go to, and what the experience is like over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/gulliver\/2014\/03\/political-tourism?fsrc=rss\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/gulliver\/2014\/03\/political-tourism?fsrc=rss\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is coming up and there are reasonably priced packages for trips to the Ukraine, Syria, and Sudan you should consider: Companies that set up tours to countries with political problems have been thriving. One company offers a $5,775 trip to the Ukraine (excluding airfare) where travelers can meet with politicians and have journalists serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/032214_0809_DisasterTou1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10715"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10718,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715\/revisions\/10718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}