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Tourism Security
| Author | : Peter Tarlow |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2014-06-09 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0124115721 |
Tourism security is an important part of both security management and tourism. Private security professionals and police departments in tourism cities, as well as hotels, major attractions, and theme parks, have all come to realize that tourism security and safety issues (often called tourism surety) are essential for industry survival and success. In Tourism Security, leading expert Peter Tarlow addresses a range of key issues in tourism safety and security.The book guides the reader through a study of tourism security themes and best practices. Topics include the relationship between tourism security and the economy, hotel and motel security, risk and crisis management, public places, transportation, and legal issues. The book also includes case studies of four popular tourist destinations. With each destination, an interview with a police or security representative is included—providing unique, in-depth insight to security concerns.Tourism Security is an invaluable resource for private security professionals, police departments that serve tourist destinations, and tourism professionals who work in hotels or convention centers, or at attractions, casinos, or events. - Explains what tourism security is and outlines safety procedures for different tourism environments - Serves as a resource tool and how-to for implementing best practices - Includes detailed case studies of four popular tourist destinations: Charleston, South Carolina, the Dominican Republic, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Safety and Security in Tourism
| Author | : C Michael Hall |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1136408193 |
How will the travel and tourism industry respond to the terrorist attacks on America?The recent terrorist attacks in the United States and their repercussions for the travel and leisure industries have focused more attention on tourism safety and security issues than ever before. The impact on tourism destinations and businesses, as well as on traveler behavior, will be significant. Recent events require further analysis not only of how travel safety may be improved but also how security issues may be seen in terms of tourism marketing and management so that the industry is able to better respond to such challenges.In this, an era of turbulent global relationships, the need for destination marketing organizations to demonstrate that they are safe for tourists has become increasingly important. Negative publicity, often unrelated to on-the-ground reality, may also serve to affect tourist perceptions.Safety and Security in Tourism: Relationships, Management, and Marketing examines: the effects of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the tourism industry and how the industry is responding the importance of safety as a factor in destination or activity choice case studies of destination and business responses to past political instability and/or attacks against tourists safety, security and destination image the role of the media in influencing consumer perceptions of travel safety consumer awareness of travel advisories and their influence on behavior the role of insurance in the travel industry consumer awareness and acceptance of security measures in travel and tourism safety and security as a component in destination marketing crisis and risk management in the tourism industry cross-border security and visa controls and their implications for tourism safety and security measures for tourists in different sectors and in airportsTourism has often been cited as a force for peace, yet tourism is typically one of the first industrial casualties of war and political unrest. This book examines tourism safety and security issues to give you a better knowledge base from which to respond to future events.
Tourism, Security and Safety
| Author | : Yoel Mansfeld |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2006-08-11 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1136352724 |
The topic of safety and security in the tourism industry is of vital importance globally. In recent years, and mainly after the 9/11 event, both academics and practitioners have started to look into crisis management issues seeking workable solutions in order to mitigate the negative impacts of safety and security incidences on the tourism industry and affected destinations. Tourism, Safety and Security: a multi dimensional analysis brings together the writings of international leading academics and practitioners in this field to discuss prevention measures and crisis management options, in incidences of tourism safety and security. The layout and content of the book are aimed at analyzing different types of safety and security problems as well as finding managerial strategies and tactics to address them. Divided into four sections this book looks at: · Tourism and security issues: including the impact of terror in the hotel market in Israel · Tourism and crime issues: including premises liability, drug trafficking, theft and street robbery · Tourism and safety Issues: including the impact of SARS in Asia and Foot and Mouth Disease in the UK · Tourism crisis management issues: including the 9/11 crisis, public relations, and the aftermath of the Bali bombings Each chapter has a user friendly structure including study objectives, concept definitions and review questions.
Tourism, Safety and COVID-19
| Author | : Salvatore Monaco |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 183 |
| Release | : 2021-11-29 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1000478351 |
This book offers empirical insights on key challenges faced by the travel and tourism industries in the post-COVID-19 era. The desire to make tourism safe is gaining ground, but what does this mean? This book explores the guarantees travelers want in the postpandemic era and how individual territories are predicting and responding to these needs. It explores the role of innovation and digital solutions, assures tourists different ways of using services, both physical and digital. It considers how the commitment of smart tourist cities to technology, sustainability and accessibility is able not only to improve the quality of travelers’ tourist experience, but also the quality of life of local inhabitants. This book considers the main solutions that many destinations are already experimenting, around the world to respond to the new safety demands of travelers.
Safety and Security in Tourism
| Author | : Noel Scott |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2013-09-13 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1317993519 |
Natural disasters, wars and conflicts, epidemics, and other major crises can devastate a tourism service or destination. Though there is extensive literature and research on preparation and coping with tourism crises, there is a gap in information on how to best market and recover from the destruction of caused to tourism businesses and destinations. This book fills the gap by comprehensively examining how to rebuild the market for a tourism service or destination after a catastrophe. This important book presents leading experts from around the world providing useful instruction on effective ways to plan for future crisis response and strategies for recovering business. A crisis may arise from several types of destructive occurrences, from natural physical destruction of important infrastructure to acts of terrorism. Because of the broad range of potential problems, there is no single strategy for which to deal with crises. The book explores a wide range of catastrophes, from Hurricane Katrina to tsunamis to war, taking a detailed look at management and administrative strategies which can help stimulate tourism recovery. This book explores stealth and catastrophic risks, risk perceptions, mediating the effects of natural disasters on travel intention, and various marketing strategies designed to bring customers back. This volume may become one of the most crucial resources in a tourism professional’s library. The book is extensively referenced and includes several tables and figures to clearly explain data. This book is essential reading for tourism researchers, tourism educators, tourism industry managers, and tourism industry administrators. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing.
Tourism Destination Management in a Post-Pandemic Context
| Author | : Vanessa GB Gowreesunkar |
| Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2021-06-11 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1800715137 |
Drawing from lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tourism Destination Management in a Post-Pandemic Context presents cases and competencies to advance theoretical and empirical knowledge in the management of destinations post-pandemic.
Managing Tourist Health and Safety in the New Millennium
| Author | : Jeff Wilks |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2013-06-17 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1136381341 |
Managing Tourist Health is a seminal study which combines a range of state of the art reviews of the issues facing tourism managers and professionals in the fast growing area of tourist health and safety. An international range of contributors, each a specialist in their chosen field, have written papers for this book to explain many of the complex issues affecting tourists, the tourism industry and governments in ensuring tourism is viewed as a safe and enjoyable experience for all. The contributors have a wealth of interdisciplinary experience ranging from medicine, law, tourism research, safety science, ergonomics, management, consultancy among other cognate areas of study. Future research directions are examined in many of the chapters together with current state of the art knowledge in relation to key studies. The editors have worked in this area of research since the late 1980s and have accumulated a wide range of academic, professional and consultancy experience for governments and the private sector. The book extends this understanding through a multi-disciplinary perspective combining some of the leading researchers who have published in this area since the emergence of tourist health as a legitimate area of study in the 1970s.
Tourist Health, Safety and Wellbeing in the New Normal
| Author | : Jeff Wilks |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 553 |
| Release | : 2021-11-29 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9811654158 |
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of international and domestic tourism and sharply focused attention on the importance of tourist health, safety and wellbeing like never before. This book offers a unique perspective on the challenges facing the world’s largest service industry to protect and care for customers in a rapidly evolving environment where borders have closed, social distancing rules apply and personal hygiene has become a key focus in everyday life. Yet tourism is a very resilient industry and history shows there is always an immediate surge toward recovery after a crisis has passed. Humans want to travel and see the world. While we appreciate that the pandemic is far from over, already there are reports of pent-up demand for travel as restrictions ease at some destinations and borders begin to open. As we move hopefully toward the recovery phase and people begin to move around for business and pleasure, this book presents the reader with key information and insights in both traditional and emerging areas of tourist health, safety and wellbeing, recognising that the world is now shaped by this pandemic, bringing change, potentially enduring benefits and lasting legacies.
Key Dimensions of Occupational Safety and Health Protection Management
| Author | : Snezana Živkovic |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Industrial hygiene |
| ISBN | : 9781799881902 |
"This publication offers debate on the importance of occupational safety and health management in organizations, with respect to the exchange of best practices and knowledge, to enhance workplace safety and health and provide human capital with the adequate prevention mechanisms"--
