Jack the Ripper in Tourism.

For my part of the presentation I have been looking at the tourism that Jack the Ripper still generates today. When I typed "Jack the Ripper walks" into Google I could not believe that there were so many. There are loads to choose from, from guided factual walks to ghost walks and also like Mark told us the walk where you buy a guide book and then do the tour yourself.

When I went to the London Dungeons a few years ago there was a whole section in there about Jack the Ripper with the police photos on the walls. In the merchandise shop afterward they were even selling Jack the Ripper t-shirts. When I looked for an example of one of the t shirts that they had to put on here I found this t-shirt. It is a My Chemical Romance t-shirt but then advertised as "My Chemical Romance - Jack the Ripper"

It still after all the things we have learnt in this module, amazes me that people are so fascinated with the Ripper. I often wonder why and think that it is a bit sick to be interested in a killer but then I, myself find the subject so fascinating as it intrigues me that he was never caught. We will never know the true identity of Jack the Ripper and that is why he is so popular because people enjoy all of the speculation around his true identity.