ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses the relationship between tourism and violence is a neglected area within studies of tourism, tourists and local communities. It demonstrates violence is a manifestation of conflict although it needs to be acknowledged that not all conflict involves or leads to violence. The influence of crime and terrorist attacks is represented here they are employed to support broader discussions ranging from the ontological roots of violence to the relationship between tourism and social suffering. The chapter illustrates the touristification of brutality, the link between tourism and violence is not a recent phenomenon, despite the emergence of Dark Tourism as a focus for scholarly activity. A tourism and conflict research agenda needs to acknowledge and unpick such contextual characteristics as part of an overarching approach. A final research suggestion is anthropological in borrowing from Mary Douglas as it seeks to explore conflict through tourism as a form of secular defilement indicative of particular patterns of belief and social ordering.
