ABSTRACT
The British Journal, The Economist, in 1999 reported that Yassir Arafat stated: “I formally and absolutely renounce all forms of tourism” (sic). We may assume that Arafat meant “terrorism” rather than “tourism” yet there may be more here than even he realized. Arafat, perhaps unintentionally, by his Freudian slip of the tongue connected what tourism scholars and practitioners have long known. Tourism and terrorism are linked in many more ways than about which anyone in the industry chooses to speak.
