Ayşegül Acar

Ayşegül Acar on the relationship between terrorism and tourism

Ayşegül Acar

Ayşegül Acar com­pleted her under­gradu­ate stud­ies in tour­ism man­age­ment at Boğaziçi Uni­ver­sity, Tur­key before com­plet­ing her Mas­ter­’s degree at Istan­bul Uni­ver­sity in 2016.

Ayşegül is pur­su­ing her Ph.D. at Istan­bul Uni­ver­sity while sim­ul­tan­eously under­tak­ing a second Mas­ter­’s with the Eco­nom­ics Depart­ment at Middle East Tech­nic­al Uni­ver­sity and work­ing as Research Assist­ant in the Depart­ment of Tour­ism Man­age­ment, Fac­ulty of Tour­ism, at Kar­abük Uni­ver­sity! Ayşegül’s research interests are the top­ics of ter­ror­ism and tour­ism, polit­ic­al instabil­ity and tour­ism, sus­tain­able tour­ism, as well as tour­ism account­ing and finance.

Terrorism and tourism’s diabolical relationship

November 17, 2017

Terrorism and tourism's diabolical relationship

Ayşegül Acar, research assist­ant at Kar­abük Uni­ver­sity, Tur­key, and doc­tor­al stu­dent at Istan­bul Uni­ver­sity, explores the dis­com­fit­ing rela­tion­ship between ter­ror­ism and tour­ism in this “GT” Insight. Bombs explod­ing one after anoth­er, vehicles plough­ing through masses of people, media cov­er­age, and the responses of those in power; they all cre­ate ten­sion, inter­na­tion­al con­flict, dis­order, and political […]

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