Tourism Security: Helping the Tourism Industry Recover in the Face of Global Terrorism
Verfasser: yogesh on Thursday, 16 March 2017Tourism has become a major global industry and is highly lucrative for any country seeking to earn foreign currency and boost its international appeal. According to WTO Tourism data, international tourist arrivals reached a record 1.2 billion in 2015. Nearly 50 million more tourists travelled internationally worldwide as compared to the previous year. Safety and security are a vital aspect of making sure that tourists have an enjoyable and trouble-free experience. Unfortunately, global issues like terrorism, territorial disputes, civil wars, natural disasters, epidemics and pandemics affect all aspects of human life. It was only inevitable that even tourism security would be greatly compromised by these. Some terrorist strikes like those in Mumbai, Paris, Nice, Istanbul, and Brussels were deliberately meant to harm tourists and decimate the thriving tourism industry of these nations. That is why tourism security measures have become very important, both from the governmental and private citizen point of view.
Tourism security has always been the highest priority for any organiser of a major event. For e.g. - during the Ancient Olympic Games, all warfare between different Greek states would be suspended. Travel risks contributed to a substantial industry-wide decline in the Middle Ages. With the advent of mass tourism from the 1950’s, tourism security evolved into its present form.