A view of the homes Peoples Temple members lived in at Jonestown in Guyana on Nov. 18 ... “revolutionary suicide” by Jones, as heard on tapes recovered from the property.

A tour operator is planning to turn Jonestown, a remote area in Guyana surrounded by jungle where more than 900 people died under the direction of cult leader Jim Jones, into a tourist destination.

But the history in question is macabre: the mass death of more than 900 people at the remote Jonestown settlement in Guyana nearly 50 years ago. And plans to bring tourists to the former cultist ...