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Occupied West Bank –<\/strong> Rows of Israeli flags mark the entrance to the Ahava Visitor Center a few hundred metres from the northwestern banks of the Dead Sea.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Inside, the\u00a0cosmetics manufacturer\u00a0sells\u00a0“With\u00a0Love from Israel”\u00a0skincare gift sets to the American, Russian and Korean tourist groups that arrive in buses every\u00a010\u00a0minutes or so.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the unsuspecting visitor, it is not easy to tell that one is no longer within the\u00a0internationally recognised borders of Israel, but in the occupied West Bank, in an Israeli settlement, illegal under international law.<\/span><\/p>\n

The same goes for nearby\u00a0Qumran, a\u00a0popular tourist attraction where a Bedouin shepherd\u00a0once found the famous Dead Sea Scrolls.<\/span><\/p>\n

Notwithstanding it being situated in the West Bank, Israel now controls the site, which also has an entry marked by rows of Israeli flags and a sizeable gift shop filled with “I love Israel”\u00a0souvenirs.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I believe we are in Israel,” said Jimmy Small, a tourist from New York, when asked about his current location.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Most other tourists at a tour bus car park in Qumran gave the same response.<\/span><\/p>\n

The confusion is\u00a0not that surprising given the major travel companies’ brochures and websites.<\/span><\/p>\n

An investigation\u00a0by\u00a0Al Jazeera\u00a0of\u00a0travel catalogues and itineraries found that\u00a020 of the most popular\u00a0travel agencies and booking sites are taking tourists shopping, dining or for an overnight stay in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, Golan\u00a0Heights and\u00a0East\u00a0Jerusalem.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

None of the companies informs\u00a0potential consumers that they will be visiting an illegal settlement,\u00a0and only six mention or imply that one will\u00a0be outside\u00a0Israeli territory.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas Cook, Collette and On the Go Tours,\u00a0for example,\u00a0visit the Ahava\u00a0Visitor Center\u00a0without telling tourists they are leaving Israel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Saga Holidays describes a stopover and wine tasting in the Golan Heights settlement Katzrin as a visit to “the new Israeli town of\u00a0Katzrin”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Booking.com offers rooms in “The Garden Suite Apartment”, which the website\u00a0says is located in\u00a0“Jerusalem (Israel)”,\u00a0but\u00a0the accommodation is situated in the\u00a0Gilo\u00a0settlement in the occupied West Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n

The tourists ought to have\u00a0a cause of action against the tour companies and claim compensation for having been fraudulently misled and exposed to criminal activity.<\/span><\/p>\n

John Dugard, professor of international law and former UN special rapporteur on Palestinian human rights<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In another case, the large travel agency GoEco, which describes itself as “a leading eco-tourism company” with a selection of “ethical volunteer projects abroad”, offers\u00a0a two-to-eight week volunteer programme in the\u00a0“Mountain Eco Lodge”\u00a0in what is supposedly Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to\u00a0GoEco, the lodge\u00a0“sets an example of modern sustainable living” on “one of the highest peaks in Israel” in Nimrod, “a small Israeli town in the Golan Heights”.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not mentioned that Nimrod is an Israeli settlement, illegal under international law.<\/span><\/p>\n

This information may seem even more crucial when considering that one of the main activities as a volunteer is construction work –\u00a0“the rewarding experience of building structures from the ground up” – which means that the participants will\u00a0directly\u00a0contribute to the settlement’s\u00a0construction.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to John Dugard, professor of international law and former UN special rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, the travel agencies’ customers are unknowingly “aiding and abetting” the crime of establishing illegal settlements.<\/span><\/p>\n

“In theory, this exposes tourists to prosecution for having purchased illegal goods,” said Dugard,\u00a0who\u00a0added that though holidaymakers are not going to be prosecuted before the International Criminal Court for such an\u00a0offence, travel agencies should be warning tourists that they are about to commit a crime.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The tourists ought to have a cause of action against the tour companies and claim compensation for having been fraudulently misled and exposed to criminal activity,” Dugard said.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘An effective way to reproduce the official Israeli narrative’<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

Over the past years, the Israeli government has\u00a0invested heavily in <\/span>building hotels and tourism development in West Bank settlements<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0and according to settler spokespersons,\u00a0recent years have seen<\/a> settlement tourism grow<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, a\u00a0<\/span>leaked EU Heads of Mission report<\/span> warned that\u00a0“tourist\u00a0settlements”\u00a0in occupied East Jerusalem were being used\u00a0“as a political tool to modify the historical narrative and to support, legitimise and expand settlements”.<\/span><\/p>\n

The conclusions are backed by Rami Khalil Isaac, a Palestinian senior lecturer at the Academy for Tourism at the Dutch NHTV Breda University, who has been studying tourism in the occupied Palestinian territories.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Tourism is becoming an effective way to reproduce the official Israeli narrative. Many of these tours to settlements in the Golan Heights or the West Bank eventually serve to normalise these places being considered parts of Israel,” Isaac said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In this photo on April 20, 2011, Israelis visit the Nahalat Binyamin visitors centre near the Jewish West Bank settlement of Psagot, near Ramallah, during the Passover holiday [File: Oded Balilty\/AP Photo<\/span>]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Palestinians, including Palestinian tour guides, are generally not allowed to access the tourist attractions that are developed as part of settlement projects. Concurrently, Israeli authorities\u00a0and settler organisations\u00a0are taking control of a growing amount of historical, archaeological and religious sites on occupied Palestinian land.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Israeli tour operators can continue their excursions to the sites on occupied territory, Palestinian tour guides are mostly restricted from crossing from the West Bank into Jerusalem or Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Brian Reeves of the Israeli NGO Peace Now, the locations where settler organisations establish tourist sites come to work as a “land grab”.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Touristic settlements also attract Israeli domestic tourism, which works to cement in every day Israelis’ minds a need to forever hold onto the territory,” he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking in the shade of his souvenir stand in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, local shop-owner Assem Barakat emphasised that Israel is in control of all borders adjacent to the Palestinian territories.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tourists\u00a0are therefore\u00a0most often travelling with companies operating from Israel – also when visiting West Bank locations\u00a0such as\u00a0Bethlehem.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Many don’t even know that they are not in Israel when coming here. And others have been told to stay alert – that it can be dangerous to go here,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

But by pretending that they are not visiting Palestine, the travel agencies are only repeating that same notion of the territory – that it is something to be scared of.<\/p>\n

Rami Khalil Isaac, lecturer<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The\u00a0examination of travel brochures also shows that for\u00a020\u00a0companies, including TUI and Trafalgar Travel, locations in occupied Palestinian territories are central to marketing campaigns, while depicting them as being part of Israel.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For instance,\u00a0the main photo on TUI’s website\u00a0is\u00a0from occupied East Jerusalem, while the headline about a round trip there is “Jerusalem and Bethlehem, Israel”, even though the international community does not recognise Israel’s annexation of occupied East Jerusalem,\u00a0while\u00a0Bethlehem\u00a0is administered by the\u00a0Palestinian\u00a0Authority.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Isaac, the lecturer at the NHTV Breda University, tourist agencies may be reluctant to mention that they will be visiting Palestinian territories because the areas are known for conflict.<\/span><\/p>\n

“But by pretending that they are not visiting Palestine, the travel agencies are only repeating that same notion of the territory – that it is something to be scared of,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bookings website Airbnb\u00a0has been criticised<\/a> before for listing properties in settlements on occupied Palestinian land as being inside the state of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Responses<\/span><\/h2>\n

In 2010 and 2015,\u00a0<\/span>the British Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned further publication of Israeli tourist campaigns<\/span>\u00a0which portrayed East Jerusalem as part of Israel.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The 2015 verdict was\u00a0later changed\u00a0in a second investigation,\u00a0as\u00a0the watchdog group\u00a0decided that the advert was not likely to mislead consumers “into taking a transactional decision that they would otherwise not have taken”.<\/span><\/p>\n

The ASA told Al Jazeera that it cannot comment on cases that have not been through its complaints and investigations process.<\/span><\/p>\n

After being contacted by Al Jazeera, On\u00a0The\u00a0Go Tours said it would remove the visit to the Ahava Visitor Centre from its Israel trip.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Topdeck,\u00a0Thomas Cook\u00a0and Collette\u00a0said\u00a0they\u00a0would correct\u00a0their\u00a0websites\u00a0to ensure Palestinian Territories are accurately identified as part of the itinerary.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We’re sorry that this element of the tour wasn’t previously made clear,” a Thomas Cook spokesman said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas Cook, via its\u00a0tour\u00a0provider Collette, is however not altering its itinerary and will keep visiting the Ahava Visitor Center.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Collette did not wish to comment on whether it would start informing guests that they would be visiting a settlement\u00a0on their tours.<\/span><\/p>\n

Riviera Travel admitted that its website did not\u00a0provide the reader with the representation that it had originally intended, and said that it would commit\u00a0to reviewing it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since being contacted by Al Jazeera,\u00a0GoEco\u00a0has removed The Mountain Eco Lodge from its website. In an email, its co-director said that it no longer works with the lodge.<\/span><\/p>\n

In an email,\u00a0Tripadvisor\u00a0spokesman Brian Hoyt did not touch upon the company’s listings in settlements\u00a0and\u00a0said that\u00a0it\u00a0seeks “to provide geographical information in how we describe a property or landmark’s location that is both practical and consistent with other sources that travellers might use visiting those areas”.<\/span><\/p>\n

TUI, Mercury Holidays, Explore Travel,\u00a0TourRadar\u00a0and the Israeli Government Tourist Office did not respond to Al Jazeera’s requests for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite\u00a0several\u00a0attempts, Al Jazeera also did not receive a response from:\u00a0Virgin Vacations;\u00a0Artisans\u00a0of Leisure; Travel55, Trafalgar; Tours4fun; Gate1; Cosmos; Mayflower Cruises and Tours; Overseas Adventure Travels; Expedia; Booking.com; Travelocity, Trivago; Orbitz, Abercrombie Kent; Titan Travel; Globus Journeys; Key Tours\u00a0and\u00a0Saga Holidays.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Travel agencies that visited Israeli settlements without informing customers:\u00a0<\/strong>Thomas Cook, Virgin Vacations, Saga Holidays, Artisans of Leisure, Gate 1, Collette Tours, Overseas Adventure Travels, Travel 55, Explore\u00a0Travel, On the Go Tours,\u00a0GoEco, Key\u00a0Tours, \u00a0Tours4fun.<\/span><\/p>\n

Booking sites that offered accommodation without informing customers that they will be staying in settlements:\u00a0<\/strong>Expedia, Booking.com, TripAdvisor, Travelocity, Trivago, Orbitz,\u00a0TourRadar.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Travel agencies that depicted occupied territories as Israel:\u00a0<\/strong>Abercrombie Kent, Thomas Cook, Virgin Vacations, Saga Holidays, Artisans of Leisure, TUI, Globus Journeys, Gate 1,\u00a0Topdeck, Mercury Holidays, Riviera Travel, Titan Travel, Travel 55, Collette Tours, Trafalgar Travel, Cosmos, Key Tours, Mayflower Cruises and Tours, Overseas Adventure Travels, Tours4fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Occupied West Bank – Rows of Israeli flags mark the entrance to the Ahava Visitor Center a few hundred metres from the northwestern banks of the Dead Sea.\u00a0 Inside, the\u00a0cosmetics manufacturer\u00a0sells\u00a0“With\u00a0Love from Israel”\u00a0skincare gift sets to the American, Russian and Korean tourist groups that arrive in buses every\u00a010\u00a0minutes or so. 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