{"id":129289,"date":"2025-01-20T11:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T19:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=129289"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:23:49","slug":"tours-proposed-to-visit-jonestown-site","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=129289","title":{"rendered":"Tours Launched to Visit Jonestown Site"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In late 2024, the Wanderlust Adventures GY company of Georgetown, Guyana announced a proposal to sponsor tours to the area of the North West District where the community of Jonestown once stood. The proposal was one of seven announced on November 29, 2024, by the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA), which are intended to offer a variety of \u201cDestination Guyana\u201d experiences to both domestic and foreign tourists.<\/p>\n

The tour would include a round-trip airplane flight, accommodations in the nearby town of Port Kaituma, a visit to the area that the jungles have reclaimed from the Peoples Temple Agricultural project, and \u2013 as the promotional materials for the effort promise \u2013 \u201cfirsthand accounts from a witness of the tragic event.\u201d The three-night package also includes other recreational activities, such as hikes, river tubing, and birdwatching in one of Guyana\u2019s most remote areas.<\/p>\n

The proposal was a controversial one \u2013 several accounts referred to it as an example of Dark Tourism and compared it to tours of Nazi concentration camps \u2013 as the comments in the press coverage and the letters to the editor of Guyana\u2019s largest newspaper, the Stabroek News<\/em>, illustrate.<\/p>\n

Despite the criticism, the tours began in January 2025.<\/p>\n

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Articles on Guyana proposal for Jonestown tours, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

Guyanese Perspectives on Jonestown as Dark Tourism Site<\/a><\/p>\n

Why Jonestown should not be turned into a \u201ctourist attraction\u201d<\/a>, an editorial by Marc Shuman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In late 2024, the Wanderlust Adventures GY company of Georgetown, Guyana announced a proposal to sponsor tours to the area of the North West District where the community of Jonestown once stood. The proposal was one of seven announced on November 29, 2024, by the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA), which are intended to offer a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":132189,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-129289","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129289"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129364,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/129289\/revisions\/129364"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}