The Jonestown massacre remains ‘a stain’ on Guyana nearly 50 years later, but tourism plans are meeting backlash.

Peoples Temple follower Larry Layton (C) stands with police following his arrest November 18, 1978 in the shooting of two ...

"The thing is, Jonestown remains a tragic part of Guyana ... take travelers from the city of Georgetown to the Port Kaituma airport, where on the day of the massacre U.S. Rep.

The group suicide at Jonestown in 1978 remains one of the most ... you'll also visit the infamous airstrip in the small neighboring town of Port Kaituma where a sitting U.S. representative and ...

There is no memorial at Jonestown, no mark of respect for those ... response when he suggested a memorial at Port Kaituma Airstrip to Congressman Ryan and others who were shot there.

More than 900 people lost their lives in the mass suicide and murder at the remote jungle compound in the fall of 1978.

It has been almost four decades since the tragedy.

An obvious attraction is Jonestown, argued Astill Paul ... Ryan and four others on the airstrip at Port Kaittuma, Guyana after being ambushed by cult members. Tim Reiterman/The San Francisco ...

Would it not be a better way to use Jonestown for some touristic (economic?) value if a monument or some kind of memorial was to be erected at the Port Kaituma airstrip to celebrate the lives of ...

It is hard to put a finger on the precise moment when the concept of “dark tourism” came into existence. The phrase itself is ...

“I just missed dying by one day,” she recalled. Vilchez, 67, said Guyana has every right to profit from any plans related to Jonestown. “Then on the other hand, I just feel like any situation where ...