The site of the largest suicide-murder in history could open as a tourist attraction

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery A view of the People’s Temple compound, Jonestown, Guyana, November 1978 Vilchez, 67, said Guyana has every right to profit from any plans related to Jonestown. After all, we have seen what Rwanda has done with that awful tragedy as an example.” open image in gallery Jordan Vilchez, who grew up in California and was moved into the Peoples Temple Guyana commune at age 14, poses for a portrait in Richmond Rose Sewcharran, director of Wonderlust Adventures, the private tour operator who plans to take visitors to Jonestown, said she was buoyed by the support. “I don’t see how this is going to be an economically feasible kind of project because of the vast amounts of money it would take to turn it into a viable place to visit.” open image in gallery Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a bilateral meeting with the President of Guyana Mohamed Irfaan Ali at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa McGehee warned about relying on supposed witnesses who will be part of the tour. “It does not help anyone understand what happened in Jonestown.” He recalled how one survivor had proposed a personal project to develop the abandoned site, but those from the temple community said, ‘Why do you want to do that?’ McGehee noted that dark tourism is popular, and that going to Jonestown means tourists could say they visited a place where more than 900 people died on the same day.