ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the motives, processes and results of one particular type of repositioning of tourism destinations, which is the potential shift from pilgrimage based to atrocity' based tourism. It explores the answers to the basic question of why there is a shift; the process and thus consequences of such changes, and the chapter sheds light on how dark' tourism practices in Palestine could help to legitimise the Palestinian right of return', and eventually the acknowledgement of Al Nakba' in 1948 and 1967. The British promised Palestine sovereignty but also agreed with European and American Zionists, in the Balfour declaration of 1917, to build a Jewish national home in Palestine. Finally, it also concludes the tourism context of Palestine is not a case of the aestheticised/fetishised violence in the present, but it is tourism of an apparently clearly dark' variety that stands separately from its pilgrimage counterparts, that tourists head to Palestine, not only despite violence, but because of it.
