ABSTRACT
To examine tourism in relation to the heritage sites associated with the Jewish Holocaust of 1933–45 is to bring together two very different phenomena. Even to use the words Holocaust and tourism in the same sentence is necessarily incongruous. The juxtaposition of an entertainment activity with the heritage of human cruelty and suffering seems ostensibly to be bizarre and distasteful. To link the heritage of organised mass murder with an entertainment industry is to introduce a discordant element of seriousness into a fun activity and, more unacceptably, to trivialise the serious memorialisation of horror and tragedy.
