Conflict zones

I shall shortly be off to spend time in New York, on a conference and to visit friends. I have been there many times and whilst it is undoubtedly not without its urban risks, for me it is a place of excitement and of relaxation. So comparatively pretty tame stuff.
That is compared to the holiday I read about recently in the Financial Times, led by the former BBC war reporter Kate Adie. Tours run by a company called Political Tours include North Korea and Kosovo and the one described was to Bosnia. 'War tourists' visit the scene of war crimes, the homes of victims and places of legal justice. The question posed was 'is it right?'  The answer seems to be that as long as some people continue to understand and tell the stories of war, once the international spotlight has left, then some level of interest and engagement will continue.
Another of Political Tours destinations is to Greece, focusing on the financial crisis, It strikes me that, just like Richard Godwin said recently in the Evening Standard, what Greece needs now is not for tourists to 'understand' the situation but to jolly well get out there and 'spend' their way through the crisis. The Greek Islands sound as charming as ever. International tourism rules ok .