You can’t beat a good ole gawk — disaster-tourism is where it’s at

Sustainability as a tourist attraction requires that a building must be ancient and hold dead people (the pyramids), bendy (the Tower of Pisa) or linked with imprisonment, torture and execution (the Tower of London).

In this category, Ireland does well.

When, two years ago, Hurricane Katrina made bits of New Orleans, it scattered a community to the four winds and devastated a local economy. It also ruined a great tourist destination.