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“TOURISM
TIDBITS”
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TOURISM &
MORE, Inc.
THE GOAL of “Tourism Tidbits”
is to provide travel professionals with
a monthly, easy-to-read overview
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“Tourism Tidbits” is published monthly
in English and Spanish, and
Portuguese. Maria José Zorilla de
Alcalá of Mexico provides the
Spanish translation; Dr. Manuel David
Masseno, of Beja, Portugal, provides the
Portuguese translation/
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The Tourism & More Team,
Best Wishes for a Happy and Healthy
2016. attacks. The prevailing paradigm argued
May it be a Successful and Peaceful Year!
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out to thousands of tourism realities that tourism professionals need terrorist attack in
professionals at a very to consider. Among these are: raises traveler anxie
-Tourism is often a magnet for terrorists. world. Due to the fa
contact Dr. Peter Tarlow at Not only does tourism provide now a worldwide ph
<ptarlow@tourismandmore. many “weak targets: but tourism values in any one location
com> are the antithesis of terrorists’ values. are not only increasi
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multiple targets for those seeking to the entire industry.
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Think of unlikely sc
“TOURISM TIDBITS” - The fear factor combined with do not only need to
January 2016 terrorism’s unpredictability, may well they can create a
impact world tourism and the world’s means of cyber attac
Terrorism’s Aggressive and economy. Terrorists to do not need simply creating rum
Passive War on Tourism to carry out a successful attack, they within the traveling
merely need to create a sense of fear. media interconne
Although business people will continue spreads at extremel
The multiple recent terrorist attacks in to travel, the leisure passenger may well can cause fear and ca
diverse places such as London, England; pull back. People well may become afraid at a particular locale
Istanbul, Turkey; San Bernardino, not only to travel to major tourism centers
California; Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, such as London and Paris, but also to less Here are a fe
and Tel Aviv, Israel along with the famous or popular destinations. tourism professio
major tourism threats in places such prepared.
as Ankara, Brussels and Munich and -Despite the publicity and the
New York, ought to be a warning to the media, statistically terrorism still -Tourism profes
tourism industry that it is entering into strikes relatively few people and even obtain their new
a new and dangerous age. In the past, fewer tourists. The death of anyone is sources. Terrorism
most tourism centers assumed that tragic, but a visitor is more likely to die especially in sma
either they would not be targets of a from a road accident of a safety hazard essential that the to
terrorism attack or that the attack would then from an act of terrorism. On the have a wide gamu
be against a highly specific and well- other hand, it is rare for the media and that he or sh
known target. Classically it was assumed to spend a great deal of time on road personal political fe
that we could almost predict which accidents. Tourism centers need to hard news and fact
areas would be most prone to terrorism develop good media plans and have them the tourism indust
in reserve so that if an incident should become politicized,
that terrorists were most likely to strike occur they are not developing a plan at for them to destroy th
locations that were high on the following the last minute.
scales: -Have a tourism-ter
· They were centers where a great -Attacks against non-tourist place. This task for
deal of economic damage would occur. specific locations still act as passive not only tourism s
· T h e y w e r e c e n t e r s c o u l d attacks on tourism. Terrorism is based law enforcement,
generate mass casualties on fear and the greater the public personnel, media sp
· They were places that had fears being away from home, the more and restaurateur
some form of iconic significance precarious is the tourism industry’s specialists and pr
· They were places that were most situation. Terrorists do not need to community politica
likely to be covered by the media. target a tourism industry actively to do essential that there
it damage, a passive attack or a failed, but between the teem m
Scholars and security specialists based publicized attack is still a success from your ability to work
this paradigm on attacks such as those the terrorists’ perspective. better a crisis can be h
in New York, London, and Madrid. The
security and tourism industries however -Terrorism is no longer confined to -Create new ways fo
major tourism centers. The California insights and info
the Middle East as being relevant to terrorism incident demonstrates that appearing to be big
tourism. Both the multiple incidents in terrorism can occur in what may have years have shown to
Europe and the United States creates previously been considered unlikely not only culturally sen
enough anomalies to cause tourism locales. This means that areas that were that stress cultural s
scholars and practitioners to question considered “safe” need to also develop is the antithesis of x
if the former paradigm does not need counter terrorism plans. industry strives to
revisions and updating. Tourism Tidbits as an individual an
presents this month some of the new -Due to high levels of publicity a ethnicity, race, or r