The Effects of Terrorism on Tourism and the Media's Role

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Author(s): Youngsun Shin (Wanbo College, Department of Tourism & Hospitality Management, China)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 15
Source title: International Tourism and Hospitality in the Digital Age
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Suresh Kumar (University Shimla, India), Mohinder Chand Dhiman (Kurukshetra University, India)and Ashish Dahiya (Central University of Haryana, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8268-9.ch009

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Management / Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Management

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Crimes, terrorism, civil unrest and war have caused serious damage to the tourism industries of afflicted destinations and in some cases totally decimated a whole industry. A turbulent security environment, caused by wars, coups d'etat, civil wars and terrorist attacks, has already demonstrated its negative impact on tourism development in many countries around the world (Taylor & Quayle, 1994). As part of this growing body of tourism literature, this chapter examines the media's role and tourist destination image in general. Moreover, the primary survey carried out to discover the perceptions and attitudes of international visitors while visiting the DMZ and its vicinity and how they perceived safety in the DMZ area. The survey were 151 international tourists to the DMZ area, reveal that respondents had reasonably positive perceptions of the DMZ area.

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