Feeling and Tourism Studies.

Drawing on critical social and spatial theories of emotion and affect this article offers a contribution to the concepts of danger-zone and dark tourism through a focus on feelings. Research findings on tourism in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the West Bank (of the river Jordan) in Palestine are presented to argue that exciting challenges are available to tourism research when closer attention is given to the embodied emotionality of tourist places in areas of ongoing socio-political conflict. The article discusses the conceptual implications when attentions turn to emotions and affects, and then describes how tourists and tour guides feel in areas of ongoing conflict. Considering emotions, affects and feelings opens up new research avenues for tourism studies.