Located in Senegal, in the Bay of Dakar, the island of Gorée is a place of immense universal value. It symbolizes the umbilical cord linking Europe, Africa and America and bears witness to a painful experience unprecedented in the history of mankind: the trafficking of millions of human beings through the crime of slavery.Today, this island plays a leading role in the recognition of African cultures, history and memories. In the aftermath of the trauma of slavery, Gorée has become an epicenter - a place that has seen one symbolic act after another for the establishment of lasting peace - and a land of pilgrimage for the entire African diaspora.In 1994, a UNESCO program was created at another place of memory: Ouidah, in Benin. Developed in collaboration with the World Tourism Organization, the objective of this program was to crystallize the memory of slavery around a commemorative itinerary called "The Slave Route", which traces the path of the captives to the bars that took them away forever. This initiative, based on what is known as "ethical tourism", for the promotion of a certain type of cultural tourism: that of memory, was intended - following the example of the initiatives launched in Gorée - to publicize the fate of those who were torn from their continent and to raise the awareness of all communities around the world, so that such a tragedy would never be forgotten and would never be repeated.