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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the motives and emotions of Western tourists visiting Tuol Sleng Genocide Prison Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and further contribute to a deeper understanding of the dark tourism consumption. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from popular travel blog sites. This study employs various qualitative and quantitative methods, such as netnography, semantic network analysis and critical content analysis in order to gain a deeper insight into the visitors' emotions and motivations. Findings This study reveals that people visit Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum mainly for \"remembrance\", \"worth visiting\", \"learning and understanding\", \"paying respect\" and a \"must visit\" attraction. Emotions revealed in this study were \"shocking\", \"sadness\", \"horror\" and \"depressive\". Research limitations/implications This paper is limited to the analyses of travel blogs sites. Further research could include interviews with Western visitors, and professionals managing the site. Originality/value To the best of the knowledge, this is the first study to examine the emotions of visitors in Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum.

One of the most devastating periods in twentieth-century history was the rule of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge over Cambodia. From April 1975 to the beginning of the Vietnamese occupation in late December 1978, the country underwent perhaps the most violent and far-reaching of all modern revolutions. These six essays search for what can be explained in the ultimately inexplicable evils perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge. Accompanying them is a photo essay that provides shocking visual evidence of the tragedy of Cambodia's autogenocide. \"The most important examination of the subject so far... Without in any way denying the horror and brutality of the Khmers Rouges, the essays adopt a principle of detached analysis which makes their conclusion far more significant and convincing than the superficial images emanating from the television or cinema screen.\" --Ralph Smith, The Times Literary Supplement \"A book that belongs on the shelf of every scholar interested in Cambodia, revolution, or communism... Answers to questions such as `What effect did Khmer society have on the reign of the Khmer Rouge?' focus on understanding, rather than merely describing.\" --Randall Scott Clemons, Perspectives on Political Science

A month and a half after agreeing to testify, I study a black-and-white photograph of Nuon Chea at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocidal Crimes in Cambodia. He stands next to Pol Pot and other Khmer Rouge leaders as they await a Chinese delegation at the Phnom Penh airport, the same one at which I arrived last night after a twenty-four-hour journey. Their Mao caps indicate China’s influence, including the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, two spectacular initiatives that, like the Khmer Rouge revolution, led to mass suffering and death. Nuon Chea’s codefendant at the ECCC, Khieu Samphan, is

This chapter begins with a description of Cambodia’s Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum and the Choeung Ek Center for Genocide Crimes. Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek reproduce master narratives of Vietnamese liberation. Both sites, which were rehabilitated and curated during the early years of the Vietnamese-ruled People’s Republic of Kampuchea, continue to engage a memory politics that obscures and makes unfeasible collective commemoration and diasporic reconciliation. The chapter addresses the problem of atrocity tourism, wherein former Khmer Rouge sites have since become popular destination points for a profitable, foreign-driven economy.