Terrorism

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Panic! The effect of travel advisories on tourism after terrorism

May 31, 2019
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Travel warning advisory notice: By Gerd Altmann via Pixabay. https://pixabay.com/illustrations/travel-warning-shield-stamp-2521727/

Sri Lanka-based villa agent Jack Eden calls for the travel & tour­ism industry to work pro­act­ively to dampen the dev­ast­at­ing effects of travel advisor­ies that exacer­bate the human and eco­nom­ic dam­age of ter­ror­ism. I wish to share my views — and listen to those of my peers — in rela­tion to what role travel advisor­ies play in the fight […]

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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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