Introduction -- The violence of non places -- Desire for danger, aversion to harm: Violence in travel to `other' places -- The enchantment of violence: Tales from the Balearics -- Dealing with the myths: Injurious speech and negative interpellation in the construction of tourism places -- Re-inventing battlefield tourism `In times of peace': Connecting tourism and the remembrance of violence -- Tourism, sight prevention, and cultural shutdown: Symbolic violence in fragmented landscapes -- A wail of horror: Empathic `atrocity' tourism in palestine -- Violence, tourism, crime and the subjective: Opening new lines of research -- New approaches in the research onterrorist attacks affecting tourism demand -- `What makes violence in backpacker tourism possible?' A critical realist study of tourism and the governance of security -- Quest for life: From pilgrimage to medical tourism to transplant trafficking -- Afterword: The experience of `matter out of place'